Claire Dillon
clairedillon.bsky.social
Art historian of the medieval Mediterranean and its afterlives in the past, present, and future. Specialist in silk textiles and Sicily. PhD Candidate @ Columbia / Fellow @ the American Academy in Rome
👤 Joined on 25 January 2025
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Collaborators remember her for her expansive work across disciplines and forms, her uncontainable energy creating and promoting art, and her talent as both a conceptual artist and as an adventurous art collector with an uncanny ability to spot emerging talent.
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My first article is out!! 🥳🥳 This article explores the role of relics in Alfonso V’s conquest of Naples. It’s OA and can be found here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epub/10....
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"Built by Italian Fascists in 1928, Mogadishu Cathedral was meant to symbolize 'peaceful conquest.' Today its ruins force Somalis to confront the uneasy afterlife of colonial power and religious authority." www.africasacountry.com/2026/02/the-...
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By Faisal Ali How did a twelfth-century Sicilian cathedral [Cefalù] end up in Mogadishu? 'In this interview, I spoke with art historian Claire Dillon about her archival research into Mogadishu Cathedral and Italian colonial ambition in Somalia' open.substack.com/pub/somaliar...
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