Main Focus
- Religious early modern art
- Saints, their images and their relics
- Iconoclasm
- Sacred materiality
Research Project
Torn Apart Saints: Making, Recycling, Repairing Religious Figures in Early Modern Italy and Beyond
Curriculum Vitae
Florence Larcher is a doctoral candidate in Art History, with a specialization in Italian Renaissance art, at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her dissertation focuses on images of Saint Roch, which largely predate hagiographical texts, and considers the material and theoretical significance of religious figures in Italy from 1350 to 1680. Florence studied engineering at the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (2011–2016), and then art conservation at both the Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France (2016) and the Service des Musées de France (2018–2019). Since then, her research has been supported by the Institut National de l’Histoire de l’art (2021, 2022), the Académie de France à Rome – Villa Médicis, and the École française de Rome (2021, 2024).
Memberships/Honorary Positions
Since 2019: Member of the Collectif Renaissance