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Pierre Von-Ow

Pierre Von-Ow

Dr

  • School of Art History, 79 North Street, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9AJ, UK

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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