Ella Beaucamp is a doctoral candidate at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, where she developed her dissertation topic within the research group "Premodern Objects. An Archaeology of Experience", led by Philippe Cordez. She studies the high medieval stone reliefs of Venetian house facades, relating them to the larger context of Mediterranean trade and artistic production. The Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani, the Gerda Henkel Stiftung, and the Max Weber Foundation – German Humanities Institutes Abroad have supported her work.
For her master's thesis she was the recipient of the Heinrich Wölfflin Prize from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Philippe Cordez is Deputy Director of the German Center for Art History in Paris. His research and teaching deal with medieval art history and more generally with object studies in art history. This work has been supported by the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, the Universität Hamburg, the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, the Université de Montréal, and the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown.
His book Treasure, Memory, Nature : Church Objects in the Middle Ages, translated from French and awarded the Prize of the German Medievalists' Society (Mediävistenverband e.V.), is available at Harvey Miller Publishers.