Architecture/Landscape architecture/Urban development/Urban planning, Art/Aesthetics, History
History of Art. Medieval art and architecture.
Visual Translations of Jerusalem
The Holy Land and Europe: Spiritual and Material Bridges
The “Holy Lands” of Europe: Architectural Emblems
Cult of Sites and Cult of Saints: Studies in the Theory of the Image
The Medieval Image of the World: Visual Dimensions of Medieval Science
European Research Council Advanced Grant, 2010 – 2015
Research Grant, German-Israeli Foundation, 2000 – 2003; 2009 – 2012
Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung and Max Planck Gesellschaft, 2007
Research Grant, Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, 2006 – 2007
Membership, Academic Committee, Open University Israel, 2005 – 2009
Membership, Institute for Advanced Study, Hebrew University, 2000 – 2001
Research Scholarship, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, 1983 – 1985
English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, modern Hebrew, Romanian
Short CV/Education and training
Study of Medieval History and History of Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Selected publications
Kühnel, Bianca (2003): The End of Time in the Order of Things: Science and Eschatology in Early Medieval Art. Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner.
Kühnel, Bianca (Hrsg.): The Real and Ideal Jerusalem in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Art. Special double issue of the annual Jewish Art 23/24, 1997/1998.
Kühnel, Bianca (1994): Crusader Art of the Twelfth Century: A Geographical, an Historical, or an Art-Historical Notion. Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag.
Kühnel, Bianca (1987): From the Earthly to the Heavenly Jerusalem; Representations of the Holy City in Christian Art of the First Millennium (Rome-Freiburg/Br.-Vienna: Herder Verlag. (Römische Quartalschrift für christliche Altertumskunde und Kirchengeschichte, 42. Supplementheft).
Selected projects
Projections of Jerusalem in Europe: A Monumental Network (European Research Council Advanced Grant, May 2010 – June 2015)
The Holy Land Elsewhere (in cooperation with Bruno Reudenbach, University of Hamburg, and Gerhard Wolf, Max-Planck Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz) (German-Israeli Foundation, January 2010 – December 2012)
Membership in scientific bodies/juries
College Art Association (CAA)
International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA)
IKON Journal of Iconographic Studies (University of Rijeka), editorial board
Iconology Research Group (IRG), Universities of Louvain and Utrecht, scientific committee
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History, Social, modern political, and environmental history
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History, Linguistics/Literature, Semitic Philology
