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Angeliki Lymberopoulou

Angeliki Lymberopoulou

Art History Department

Professional biography
Angeliki Lymberopoulou is a Senior Lecturer in Art History at The Open University. Angeliki Lymberopoulou joined the Open University in April 2004 from the National Gallery in London, where she worked across the collections as a Dossiers Assistant. She has also taught Modern Greek language and culture at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, and Byzantine art and architecture at the University of Birmingham. Her research interests focus on Venetian Crete (1211-1669), particularly the artistic production (i.e. icons and wall paintings), the demand (i.e. market), its social context (i.e. the artists and their hybrid clientele), and the cross-cultural influences between Byzantine East and (mainly Italian) West. She also examines late – Palaiologan – Byzantine art (1261-1453) produced in the major artistic centres during the last phase of the empire – Constantinople, Thessaloniki and Mystras. Teaching contributions for the Open University include AA315 Renaissance Art Reconsidered, looking at post-Byzantine art and audiences for Cretan icons; A226 Art and Visual Culture 1100-1600, looking at Crusader art and the work of El Greco; and the new MA in art history. Her current research interests include the heritage of Byzantine art in the Renaissance period. Furthermore, with Prof. Dr Vasiliki Tsamakda, she is co-managing the Leverhulme funded International Networks project, which examines the representations of hell on Cretan frescoes from the thirteenth to seventeenth centuries. This project involves a team of nine scholars and is currently in its final research year. A pioneering database, currently under construction and expected to go live in May 2014, will offer access to all the material that has been gathered over the course of this project, the plethora of which are currently not available for research and other purposes. A scholarly publication will also accompany this database.