Anatole Upart

Anatole Upart has been a recipient of several awards and grants, including the Fulbright Grant (Italy 2016-2017, Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome and Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice) and the Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2019-2020), as well as research residencies at the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany, and the Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities in Naples, Italy. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London, UK, a Companion of Confraternity of Our Lady, Saint Luke and the White Shield, and a Knight of Merit of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George (Hispano-Neapolitan Branch).

Dr Upart’s research focuses on the phenomenon of national churches in Early Modern Rome, particularly those established for the communities attached to the Eastern liturgical traditions (Byzantine Rite, Armenian Rite, etc.). His other interests, explored in several articles and publications, are the early modern noble artistic elites, aristocratic circles in Rome and Naples, history of print, early Russian cinema, heraldry, and modern church architecture in the context of immigration to the United States. His current projects include a manuscript of Ruthenians in Early Modern Rome: Art and Architecture of a Uniate Community, 1596 – 1750 (Leiden: Brill) and a study, “Armigerous Artists:  Papal Nobility & The Formation of Artistic Elites in Early Modern Rome & Beyond.”