An Thi Andronikou

Dr. Anthi Andronikou is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews' School of Art History, specializing in medieval and early modern art with a focus on transcultural visual exchanges in the Mediterranean. She holds a PhD from St Andrews (2015) and has held prestigious fellowships including the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Mary Seeger O'Boyle Fellowship at Princeton. Her research explores Crusader art, Byzantine-post-Byzantine dynamics, and Venetian-Cypriot artistic interactions.

Education:

• Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Art and Archaeology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
• Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Byzantine Art, Athens
• Master of Letters (MLitt) in Late Medieval/Renaissance Italian Art, University of St Andrews
• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from St Andrews (2015), thesis: 'Italy and Cyprus: Cross-Currents in Visual Culture (Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries)'

Research Interests:
Her work bridges comparative art history and cultural theory, focusing on southern Italy, Cyprus, and the Holy Land. Key areas include:

• Crusader material culture and transconfessional visual idioms
• Medieval Mediterranean transcultural networks
• Byzantine and Venetian art in Cyprus
• Pseudo-Arabic in Christian contexts

Publications:
Her monograph Italy, Cyprus, and Artistic Exchange in the Medieval Mediterranean (2022) investigates crosscurrents between Italy and Cyprus. Recent work includes articles on pseudo-Arabic in southern Italian art and co-editing The Pittas Collection (2019).

Awards & Activities:

• Organized the 2021 British Academy-funded workshop 'Pluriversality at Play'
• Awardee of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and British School at Rome
• Recipient of the Nikolaos Drandakis Prize (2018)

Teaching:
At St Andrews, she lectures on Byzantine art, Crusader art, Baroque/Rococo art, and the nude body in Byzantine visual culture.