Major Fields of Interest: Italian Renaissance Art, Devotional practices, Private chapels, Drawings, Making process, Early Modern Embroidery

Graduate Experiences: 

M.A. Art history, University of Montreal, 2015.

Ph.D. Art history, University of Montreal, 2021 (with the highest distinction). Dissertation available on: https://papyrus.bib.umontreal.ca/xmlui/handle/1866/26269

to be published by Brepols in 2025 under the title Le Château intérieur. Image, espace et dévotion chez les cardinaux de la Rome post-tridentine

Postdoctoral Fellowships :

• Niki (Dutch Institute for Art History), Florence, 2022-2023.
• British School at Rome, 2024.

Postdoctoral research project: Drawing and Praying: Rethinking Religious Sketches in Sixteenth-Century Italian Art

Supervisor: Una Roman D’Elia

Publications:

• « “con obligo di celebrare ogn’anno messe cinquanta per l’anima mia” : La Madonna della Ghiara entre Reggio Emilia et Rome », Images re-vues. Hors-série 12, 2024 : «Comprendre les images pré-industrielles comme des médias multimodaux : agentivité, performance et médialogie dans l’étude des objets visuels », (dir. Marianne Cailloux e Claudia Quattrocchi), Online: https://journals.openedition.org/imagesrevues/15507.
• « Icône publique, dévotion privée : la Madonna della Clemenza dans le palais du cardinal Altemps à Rome », Anne Friederike Delouis et coll. (dir.), Rituels de la vie publique et privée, du Moyen Âge à nos jours, Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2021, p. 51-79.
• « L’immagine della purezza : Ippolito II d’Este e la costruzione della figura del cardinale devoto », in I cardinali protettori delle corone e le arti in età moderna (dir. Émilie Corswarem e Aldo Roma), Roma, Viella, forthcoming.
• « Devozione in villa », Valentina Burgassi, Claudio Castelletti, Alessandro Spila (dir.), Ville e giardini della Tuscia nel Cinquecento. Storia, arte, architettura, Rome : Casa Editrice Quasar, forthcoming.

Stream: Treatment

Specialization: Painting

Areas of interest: pigments, Oil paintings from the Renaissance to the 20th century

Nerine Cavadias graduated from the University of Guelph in 2023 with a Bachelor of Arts Honours, majoring in Studio Art and minoring in Art History. During her studies she developed her own artistic practice, specializing in painting and drawing. Before coming to Queens, Nerine completed an internship at Toronto Art Restoration INC. where she digitized an archive of yearbooks and completed the digital restoration of photographic media. 

Major Fields of Interest: Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee cultural creations, stone materialities, decolonial methodologies and techniques of material analysis

Undergraduate Experience: B.A.H. Art History, Queen’s University (2016)

Graduate Experiences:

M.Sc. Cultural Heritage Materials and Technologies (2019); University of the Peloponnese - Kalamata, Greece.

M.A.C. Art Conservation – Treatment Steam (2018); Queen’s University

PhD Research Project: Stories in Stone: Multi-level analysis of ground stone tools at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre.

Supervisor: Dr. Norman Vorano

Major Fields of Interest: contemporary art, curating art, biennials

Undergraduate Experience: Bachelor of Arts Honours Queen’s University, Art History Major, History Minor

MA Research Project Topic: Quasi-Embassies and the Advantages of Historic Visibility at the 60th Venice Biennale

Supervisor: Dr. Jen Kennedy

Major Fields of Interest: Baroque Art

Undergraduate Experience: Queen’s University, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) with Art History Minor.

MA Topic: Italian Baroque Paintings

Supervisor: Dr. Gauvin Bailey

Major Fields of Interest: Canadian history & visual culture, critical heritage studies, conservation of heritage sites and objects, museum & tourism programming

Undergraduate Experience: BAH in Art History at Queen's University

Major Fields of Interest: Indian traditional narrative arts; traditional crafts; intangible cultural heritage; transition of tradition into commodity culture; role of a museum in preservation of tradition, stories, memories and other intangible heritage; communication between the museum and artisan communities.

Undergraduate Experience: BFA in Art History, Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, India (2012)

Graduate Experience: MFA in Art History, Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, India (2014).

MA Thesis Title: “Revisiting the Era of the Pan-Asian Ideals: 1900-1950”

MA Research Project Topic: The thesis reflects on the nationalist movement that influenced the art and education of Bengal and the collaboration among the Indian and Japanese thinkers paving the way towards a profound ideal of Pan-Asianism.

Supervisor: Dr. Antonia Behan

Major Fields of Interest: Symbolism, Metaphysics, the traditional sciences (astrology, alchemy, etc.) and such as it relates to religious art of eastern and western cultures

Undergraduate Experience: Bachelor of Science from Northeastern University in Music/Music Industry

Major Fields of Interest: Research Creation (Painting & Printmaking), Creating en plein air (outdoors), Canadian Art

Undergraduate Experience: B.F.A. (Honours), minor Art History, Queen’s University

Graduate Experience: M.F.A. Visual Art, University of Regina

Supervisor: Dr. Norman Vorano