Profile

Milena Viceconte is Lecturer in Art History at the University of Lleida (Spain).

After obtained her PhD in 2013 at the University of Naples Federico II – in cotutela with the University of Barcelona-, she has been a research fellow within the project ERC project DisComPoSE Disasters, Communication and Politics in Southwestern Europe: the Making of Emergency Response Policies in the Early Modern Age (www.discompose.unina.it/), focusing in particular on the study of the imagery of disasters in the modern age.

She currently collaborates with several Italian and Spanish research groups, including the PRIN project VeLoCi The Vesuvian Lost Cities before the ‘Discovery’. Sources, Experience, Imagery in Early Modern Period at the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” (https://velociproject.org/), in which she deals with the analysis of figurative sources regarding the cities buried by the eruption of 79 A.D.

Publications

Among her recent publications:

Eruzioni di carta. Quattro secoli di stampa sui vulcani, a cura di E. Scirocco, P. Helas, G. Maurer, D. Cecere, H.S. Stegemann, M. Viceconte. Naples: FedOA Press, 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6887-197-0

M. Viceconte, St Filippo Neri in the Spanish Press: Earthquakes, Veneration and Wondrous Events, in Exciting News! Event, Narration and Impact from Past to Present, ed. by Brendan Dooley and Alexander Samuel Wilkinson. Leiden: Brill, 2024, pp. 100-119. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004689831   

M. Viceconte, Vulnerabilidad y devoción: San Emigdio patrón tutelar contra los terremotos en Guatemala, «Revista Cuhso», 34/2 (2024), pp. 337-363. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7770/cuhso-v34n2-art753

Heroes in Dark Times. Saints and Officials Tackling Disaster (16^th-17^th century, ed. by Milena Viceconte, Gennaro Schiano, Domenico Cecere. Rome: Viella, 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.52056/9791254693025

M. Viceconte, Disasters and Devotion: Sacred Images and Religious Practices in Spanish America (16^th-18^th Centuries), in Disaster in the Early Modern World Examinations, Representations, Interventions, ed. by O. Akopyan and D. Rosenthal. London-New York: Routledge, 2023, pp. 176-198. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003029823-10

M. Viceconte, La iconografía novohispana de San Emigdio, abogado contra los temblores, «Revista de Arte Ibero Nierika», 24/12 (2023), pp. 60-86. DOI: https://doi.org/10.48102/nierika.vi24.617