Antonino Tranchina

Antonino Tranchina PhD studied Romance Philology and Art History at the Università degli Studi di Palermo and Bologna University Alma Mater Studiorum. He has earned his PhD at Rome University La Sapienza with a thesis on the architecture, furnishing and decoration of the monastery of the Holy Savior in Messina during the Norman period, with a final section on the extant evidence of twelfth-century book decoration from the monastery’s scriptorium. He has been Postdoctoral Fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, where he is currently Scientific Assistant of the Director at the Department ‘Cities and Spaces in Premodernity’. He published on sacred Architecture and church decoration of the Early Middle Ages in Southern Italy, focusing on Greek Monasticism as well as on monasteries, churches, and profane architecture in coastal environment. He is Scientific Collaborator in the project Mapping Sacred Spaces. Forms, Functions and Aesthetics in Medieval Southern Italy, and in the MSCA-RISE project Conques in the Global World. Transferring Knowledge: From Material to Immaterial Heritage.