Anca-Delia Moldovan

Anca-Delia Moldovan is a Marie Sklodowska Curie Eutopia-SIF COFUND Fellow at the University of Warwick, UK and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She gained a PhD in History of Art from the University of Warwick (2020) having previously studied at the Universities of Florence and Bucharest. Her current project ‘OLEUM’, Olive Cultivation and Environment in Tuscany in the Early Modern Period proposes a multifaceted investigation into the environmental, artistic, and intellectual history of the olive tree in the Medici Grand Duchy of Tuscany (1569-1737). The project aims to bring novel insights into a plant intrinsically connected to the construction of the ‘Tuscan’ identity, while highlighting its sensitivity to the climatic fluctuations that already affected this territory during the Early Modern period.

Moldovan held fellowships at I Tatti, The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence; Warburg Institute; Newberry Library; and Herzog August Bibliothek. She authored articles in journals including Rivista di Storia della Miniatura, Renaissance and Reformation, and Renaissance Quarterly. Her forthcoming monograph, entitled Illustrating the Year: The Iconography of the Calendar and Its Cultural Impact in Early Modern Italy uses calendrical images to examine the ways Renaissance Italian people imagined the seasonal passage of time, their relationship with nature, farming, devotional practices, and urban rhythms.