Damiana Di Bonito, Ph.D.

Damiana Di Bonito was awarded her PhD in Art History by Sapienza University of Rome in 2021 (Cycle XXXIII; supervisor Prof. Manuela Gianandrea), with a thesis on early medieval sculpture in the Diocese of Naples.

Between 2022 and 2024, she was a research fellow in the Department of Humanistic Studies at the University of Naples Federico II, where she worked on travel literature in Dalmatia between the 17th and 19th centuries as part of the project DIOMEDA, The Discovery of Medieval Art while Looking for Antiquities. Perception of Medieval Heritage by European Travellers to Southern Italy and Central Mediterranean Countries (17th–19th centuries), directed by Prof. Vinni Lucherini. Since February 2024, she has been teaching the Master’s degree in Art History course on Gothic Art at the same university.

Since 2019, she has been working as a teaching assistant on courses in Medieval Art History as part of the Bachelor and Master’s degrees in Art History at Sapienza University of Rome.

Her research interests are focused on the study of early medieval Naples, especially on liturgical sculptural furnishings and their interaction with the sacred space. She also studies the fortunes of Neapolitan medieval buildings during the modern age, particularly in the context of the waves of urban transformation carried out in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Her further interests are focused on medieval Rome, where she investigates the evolution of San Paolo Fuori le Mura during the 10th century and the sculptural decoration of the Pantheon between the 12th and 13th centuries.