Past Member
Andrea Piras
Funding provided by the Fund for Historical Studies
Affiliation
Historical Studies
Field of Study
Iranian Studies
From
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Andrea Piras’s project deals with Manichaeism and focuses on reconstructing a pattern of uses of religious images involving therapeutic aims. The use of images is a characteristic of Manichaean book art and points to an early Gnostic background of symbolic visualizations and
didactic implications.
Dates at IAS
Member
School of Historical Studies
–
Spring
Degrees
Istituto Orientale Napoli
Ph.D.
1995
Appointments
University of Bologna
2020
Full Professor
University of Bologna
2015–2020
Associate Professor
University of Bologna
2004–2015
Assistant Professor
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, SHPh
2012
Directeur d'études