The PhD programm in Archaeology and Art History is designed to train students in humanistic areas concerning archaeological, artistic, and cultural heritage from prehistory to contemporary age, taking advantage of the whole range of opportunities of Digital Humanities. The PhD educational programm will provide specific insights in these topics:

  1. Historical, social, and anthropological role of material culture and artistic production, as well as its political, ideological, and religious use.
  2. City and territory in a landscape perspective.
  3. Survival, revival, and reuse of antiquities in post-antiquity, medieval and modern times.
  4. Continuity, discontinuity, and transformation of material, architectural and artistic expressions.
  5. Patronage, collecting, museology and art market.
  6. Textual sources, art literature critic and historiography.