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Franca Buss and Gerd Micheluzzi Receive Thesis Prizes

16 December 2024

This year, Franca Buss was awarded the Deubner Prize of the Deutscher Verband für Kunstgeschichte e.V. for her dissertation “Lebenszeichen. Erinnerungsstiftung und Jenseitshoffnung in der Grabmalkultur des 18. Jahrhunderts” and Gerd Micheluzzi the Elise Reimarus Prize of the Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg for his dissertation ”Aus Mangel an Licht. Funktionen des Schlagschattens in der italienischen Malerei (ca. 430–1430)”. The prizes are awarded for outstanding doctoral theses that are characterized, among other things, by well-founded theses, linguistic quality and innovative results.

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