Ivan Gerat

Slovak Academy of Sciences

February–June 2017

Ivan Gerát is the director at the Institute for Art History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava and associate professor at the University of Trnava. His last book Legendary Scenes: An Essay on Medieval Pictorial Hagiography appeared in 2013. His current research focuses on the broad cultural contexts of images in the Late Middle Ages, philosophical problems of image interpretation and the historiography of art in the Central Europe. At the Clark, he will be finalizing a book on the historical functions of narratives related to the images of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary between 1235 and 1530.