Péter Bokody

Academic profile

Dr Péter Bokody

Associate Professor of Art History
School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business)

The Global Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Péter's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

Goal 03: SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-beingGoal 05: SDG 5 - Gender EqualityGoal 16: SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

About Péter

Dr Péter Bokody is an art historian, with research focus on the emergence of painting as a complex, gendered and political medium in renaissance Italy and the aftermath of this transformation in the early modern world. He is the author of Images-within-Images in Italian Painting (1250–1350): Reality and Reflexivity (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015) and The Imagery and Politics of Sexual Violence in Early Renaissance Italy (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2023). Integrating his research into heritage practice, Péter curated the exhibition Image and Christianity at the Benedictine Archabbey of Pannonhalma (Hungary, 2014) and currently leads an AHRC-funded project on the interpretation of the 17th-century plaster ceiling at Lanhydrock House (National Trust). He held research fellowships at BildEvidenz (Freie Universität, Berlin), Niki - Istituto Universitario Olandese (Florence), Kunsthistorisches Institut (Max Planck Institut, Florence) and the Index of Christian Art (Princeton University, Princeton). Before coming to Â鶹´«Ã½ in 2014, Péter taught art history at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (Budapest, 2013) and McDaniel College (Budapest, 2007-13). 

Teaching

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Chair of the 2026 QAA Subject Benchmark Statement for the History of Art, Design and Architecture, Péter is in the frontline of pedagogical innovations for the study of images and heritage. His strong belief in empowering students through a commitment to object-focused study, interdisciplinarity and critical theory underpins his teaching practice. He welcomes postgraduate students interested in meta-images, late medieval and early modern visual culture, gender studies, political iconography and heritage practice.

Contact Péter

Room 101, 6 Portland Villas, Drake Circus, Â鶹´«Ã½, PL4 8AA
+44 1752 585128