Personal profile
Biography
Pierre Von-Ow is Associate Lecturer in Early Modern Art History (1400-1800). Prior to joining St Andrews, he was a Research Fellow in Art History at the Académie de France à Rome – Villa Médicis (2024-2025). He holds a PhD (2024) from Yale University and a joint MA (2016) from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Columbia University.
Research overview
Pierre Von-Ow is a historian of European art focusing on the intersections between art, knowledge, and disability between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. His current research and publication projects reconsider the role of blindness and non-visual forms of representation in early modern art and natural philosophy.
Teaching activity
AH4183 The Senses, Objects, and Buildings in Early Modern Europe
AH4236 Images and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
AH5162 Art and Technology
AH1001 Art in Europe and Beyond to 1600
AH1003 Art in Europe and Beyond, 1600-1800
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Hogarth through a camera: Bedlam from print to film
Von-Ow, P., 15 May 2024, In: Écrans. 20, p. 199-229Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Propos filmiques: En pure perte
Von-Ow, P. (Editor), Lebensztejn, J.-C. & Camporesi, E. (Editor), 2021, Paris: Éditions Macula. 372 p.Research output: Book/Report › Anthology
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Joseph Grigely: Conversation Pieces
Von-Ow, P., May 2016, In: Octopus Notes. 158 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue