Nike Duh, Assistant at the France Stele Institute of Art History, Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana (Slovenia) (UIFS ZRC SAZU).
Graduated in the following fields of study: MA in Art History and MA in Intercultural German Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Maribor.
Ongoing studies: 3rd year of the PhD program in Art History at the Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor.
Go Styria scholarship holder at the Department of Art and Musicology at the University of Graz (February 2024 - March 2024)
Supervisor of the doctoral thesis: Ao. Prof. Dr. Mija Oter Gorenčič
Co-supervisor: Ao. Prof. Dr. Igor Sapač
In her dissertation, which bears the working title Nachlässe früher Kunsttopografen als Quelle für die Erforschung mittelalterlicher Kunst (original title in Slovenian: Zapuščine zgodnjih umetnostnih topografov kot vir za raziskave srednjeveške umetnosti), she deals with the archival records of around 70 people who documented medieval art in the 19th and early 20th centuries on the territory of the former province of Carniola as well as on the territory of today's Slovenian parts of Styria and Carinthia. At the beginning of the 20th century, they documented medieval art on the territory of the former province of Carniola, as well as on the territory of the now Slovenian parts of Styria and Carinthia. An important part of the research is also the estates of individual institutions for which the early art topographers worked, such as the K. K. Central-Commission zur Erforschung und Erhaltung der Baudenkmale, which contain important information on medieval art. The aim of your dissertation is to use these archival records to gain new insights into individual medieval monuments.
Jure Donša, Assistant at the France Stele Institute of Art History, Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana (Slovenia) (UIFS ZRC SAZU).
Graduated in the following fields of study: MA in Art History and MA in History, at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Maribor.
Ongoing studies: 2nd year of the PhD program in Art History at the Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor.
Go Styria scholarship holder at the Department of Art and Musicology at the University of Graz (March 2024-June 2024)
Supervisor of the doctoral thesis: Doz. Dr. Tina Košak
Co-supervisor: Dr. Helena Seražin
His dissertation deals with Baroque public sculptures in Lower Styria (picture pillars, calvaries and freestanding sculptures of saints in public spaces). The aim of his doctoral thesis, which bears the working title Baroque figural wayside shrines in Lower Styria (Slovenian: Baročna figuralna znamenja na Spodnjem Štajerskem), is to systematically document all figural wayside shrines in Lower Styria and to analyze them in the historical context of the time and place of their creation. There are many questions that interest him, in particular which artists created the figurative wayside shrines, for what occasion they were made, as well as the patrons and finally the iconography of the figurative wayside shrines. His aim is also to address the aspect of memoria and society's attitude towards Baroque public sculptures in the 19th century.