Biography

Tatiana Sizonenko is Lecturer in Art History at the Department of Art, Media, and Design, California State University San Marcos.Tatiana earned her PhD in art history, theory, and criticism from the University of California San Diego with her dissertation, “Artists as Agents in Venice: Artistic Exchange and Cultural Translation between Venice and Constantinople—The Case of Gentile Bellini, 1479-1481."  She took part in the Harvard University Getty research project “From Riverbed to Seashore,” and her chapter is included in the book The Land Between Two Seas, published by Brill in 2022. Tatiana’s research has been supported by CSUSM’s faculty research grants and a national fellowship in Russia for Distinguished Scholarship in Art History. In addition to her research and teaching, she curates exhibitions across Renaissance, Modern, and Contemporary periods. In 2017 she was named Environmental Fellow of John Muir College at UCSD for her curatorial work.

Project Summary

This project encompasses the final stages of research and writing for a comprehensive book exploring the artistic agency and portability of architecture in the post-Byzantine Mediterranean. This book will illuminate the activities of the Venetian Renaissance sculptor and architect Alevisio Novy or Alvise Lamberti da Montagnana. A student of Mauro Codussi, Alevisio worked for the Crimean Khan Meñli I Giray (r. 1475-1515) and the Grand Prince Ivan III of Russia III (r. 1462-1505). Focusing on a synthesis of architecture and sculpture in the art of Alevisio Novy, this research will address the following areas: the interaction of spatial and sculptural characteristics, the creative methods of masters, and the intersection of the Italian Renaissance, post-Byzantine, and Ottoman artistic approaches in architectural and sculptural forms in Venice, Istanbul, Muscovy, and the Crimea. The project seeks to rewrite the history of migration of Renaissance artists from Italy to the Eastern Mediterranean and Southeastern Europe.