Katarína Kravčíková

Katarína Kravčíková is a researcher at the Department of Art History at Masaryk University in Brno, and since 2015 also member of the Center for Early Medieval Studies (CEMS). She acquired her bachelor’s degree in 2017 with the work about visual rhetoric of aniconic decoration and genesis of the church of Hagia Eirene in Constantinople, while for her master thesis she focused on the Cathedral in Le Puy-en-Velay. After the cooperation and participation on the Migrating Art Historians project, she co-edited the main outcome of the project, book Migrating Art Historians on the Sacred Ways (2018). In her research she focuses mainly on medieval sacral architecture and its ways of communication with the viewer. Kravčíková presented several outcomes of her research on Le Puy Cathedral on two international conferences: paper "Opening to the Iconic Presence: The Narthex and the Doors of Le Pu-en Velay" at the conference Walking and the Iconic Presence (Brno, 2017), and the joint contribution with Ivan Foletti called "Closed Doors as Constructors of Images" at the conference Liminality II (Brno, 2018). Kravčíková currently cooperates on the project "Becoming Radical?. The Role of Material, Visual, and Performative Culture in the Christianization of Europe (4th–6th centuries)" and works on the multimedia presentation of scientific outputs of the CEMS to the wider public.