Born June 13, 1949, in Bucharest (Romania). Romanian and Spanish nationality.
Professor of art history at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) since 1991, Department of Historical Sciences
Areas of interest
Hermeneutics of images; function of images in Western tradition; Renaissance and Baroque painting (especially Italy and Spain)
Studies
- University of Bucharest, 1967-1968
- University of Rome, 1968-1973(Tesi di Laurea di Dottore in lettere)
- University of Paris-I, May 1989 (Doctorat d'Etat ès Lettres)
Study and research internships
- Research grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, University of Munich, Germany (1983-1984; 1990-1991)
- Samuel H. Kress Grant at the Institute of Advanced Study of Princeton, U.S.A. (1990)
- Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts of the National Gallery, Washington D.C., U.S.A. (1993)
- Visiting Scholar at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, U.S.A. (1998)
- Visiting Scholar at the Institute for the Humanities, Ann Arbor, U.S.A. (February-March 1999)
- Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin, Germany (October 2002-July 2003)
- Rudolf-Wittkower Visiting Professor at the Bibliotheca Hertziana of the Max-Planck-Institut, Rome, Italy (October 2005-June 2006)
- Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts of the National Gallery, Washington D.C., U.S.A. (January-May 2011)
- Francqui Chair at several Belgian universities (2014)
- Erwin Panofsky Chair at the Zentral Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, Germany (May-June 2016)
