Name: Tamara Quírico

Title: Professor, Department of Theory and History of Art, State University of Rio de Janeiro (Uerj, Brazil)

Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Pronouns: She/Her

Email address: tamara.quirico@uerj.br

Languages: Portuguese, English, French

Areas of research: Art History

Biography: Tamara Quírico earned her Master in History in 2003 (Unicamp), when she studied Michelangelo’s Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel and 16th century criticism around it. She earned her PhD in Social History in 2009 (UFRJ), in a joint supervision program with the Università di Pisa, in which she discussed changes in the iconography of the Last Judgment in 14th century Tuscan painting. Since 2012 she has a permanent position as Professor at the Department of Theory and History of Art of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (Uerj, Brazil), where she teaches courses to undergraduate students majoring in Art History and Visual Arts, and Art History courses to graduate students pursuing MA and PhD degrees. Professor Quírico studies especially Christian images, focusing mainly their uses and functions, regarding particularly depictions of the Last Judgment, as well as devotional practices and interchanges between Christian images from Europe and America.