Georgios E. Markou
Georgios E. Markou studied Archaeology and History of Art at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens before pursuing an MA on ‘Venice and Its Legacies’ at the University of Warwick. In 2018, he completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge and subsequently held postdoctoral fellowships at Princeton University and the British School at Rome. From September 2021 to December 2023, Georgios was based at the University of Cambridge as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of History of Art. Building upon - but also transcending – its basis in micro-history, his project “Art and Exile: Biographies of displacement in the early modern Mediterranean” offers an alternative cultural panorama, by moving beyond generalizations to capture a highly connected world where artistic exchange was fundamentally mediated by the complex biographies of the individual artists who circulated within it.
Focusing on the example of Venetian Cyprus and the hitherto unrecognized artistic and cultural patronage of the island’s elite families, Georgios's first monograph challenges previously held assumptions about a culturally and confessionally rigid Greek Orthodox community. Through the integration of textual and material evidence, his inaugural book-length study will offer novel insights that refine concepts of fluid identity, wherein individuals projected cultural characteristics traditionally thought of as oppositional. Concurrently, Georgios is in the process of preparing a monograph on the Melian painter Antonio Vassilacchi, known as L’ Aliense. Grounded in the examination of unpublished documentary sources, this forthcoming volume is poised to provide illuminating insights into the life and contributions of this historically overlooked Greek master.
- Early Modern Mediterranean
- Renaissance Venice
- Cultural exchange
- Exilic art
- Artist biographies
Markou, G. E., “The testament and household inventory of the painter Baldassare d’Anna”, in E. Mavromichali and I. Assimakopoulou eds, Proceedings of the Thomas Puttfarken Workshop I&II (Thessaloniki: University Studio Press), pp.121-33.
Markou, G. E., “Titian’s ‘Allegory of Prudence’ and Philip II”, The Burlington Magazine 165 (2023), pp.258-67.
Markou, G. E., “A drawing of Giambattista Albanese by Antonio Vassilacchi, called Aliense”, Master Drawings 60 (2022), pp.311-20.
Markou, G. E., “Jacopo Tintoretto, his heirs and the family enterprise”, The Burlington Magazine 163 (2021), pp.718-23.
Markou, G. E., “An early owner of a Virgin and Child by Giovanni Bellini: the testament of Hieremia Voltera”, Arte Veneta 77 (2021), pp.228-31.
Markou, G. E., “Taddeo Zuccaro and the Pucci Chapel in Santissima Trinità dei Monti, Rome”, Source: Notes in the History of Art 39 (2020), pp.241-51.
Markou, G. E., “The inventory of the Sadeler Venetian Printing shop”, Print Quarterly 36 (2019), pp.379-89.
Markou, G. E., “Negotiating Identity and Status: The silverware of the Cypriot nobles in Renaissance Venice”, in M. Olympios and M. Parani eds, The art and archaeology of Lusignan and Venetian Cyprus (1192-1571): Recent research and new discoveries (Turnhout: Brepols, 2019), pp.301-20.
Markou, G. E., “Bonifacio de’ Pitati’s ‘Triumphs of Petrarch’ and their Cypriot Patron”, The Burlington Magazine 159 (2017), pp.600-9.
In press
Markou, G. E., “Review of ΄El Greco: Un pittore nel labirinto’”, The Burlington Magazine (February 2024).
Markou, G. E., “Caterina Tarabotti Unveiled”, Tracey Cooper ed., Women Artists and Artisans in Venice and the Veneto, 1400-1750: Uncovering the Female Presence, sponsored by Save Venice Foundation, (Amsterdam University Press).
Markou, G. E., “The Massacre of the Innocents and the image of pathos in Venetian Cyprus”, Charlene Vella ed., Dynamics of artistic interaction (Malta: Midsea books).
Markou, G. E., “Carlo Crivelli’s Madonna of the Passion and the lost church of San Sebastiano, Venice”, Source: Notes in the History of Art.
September 2021 - December 2023
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Cambridge
September 2019 - December 2021
Rome Fellow, British School at Rome
September 2018 - July 2019
Hannah Seeger Davis Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Princeton University
2013 - 2018
University of Cambridge, Department of History of Art
PhD in History of Art, Thesis title: “From Cyprus to Venice: Art, Exchange and Exile across the Renaissance Mediterranean”
2011 - 2012
University of Warwick, Department of History of Art
MA in History of Art, Course: “Venice and its Legacies”
2007 - 2011
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
BA in Archaeology and History of Art
- FAR 141 _ Fundamental Concepts in the History of Visual Arts and Cultures
- FAR 540 _ Art historical Analysis Ι (Postgraduate Programme in Art History and Theory)
