Dr Pierre Von-Ow

Associate Lecturer (Education Focused)

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2272

Email

pjhvo1@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Biography

Pierre Von-Ow is Associate Lecturer in Early Modern Art History (1400-1800). Prior to joining St Andrews, he was a Research Fellow in Art History at the Académie de France à Rome – Villa Médicis (2024-2025). He holds a PhD (2024) from Yale University and a joint MA (2016) from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Columbia University. 

Teaching

AH4183 The Senses, Objects, and Buildings in Early Modern Europe

AH4236 Images and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

AH4263 Art and Disability in the Early Modern World

AH5162 Art and Technology

AH1001 Art in Europe and Beyond to 1600

AH1003 Art in Europe and Beyond, 1600-1800

Research areas

Pierre Von-Ow is a historian of European art focusing on the intersections between art, knowledge, and disability between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. His current research and publication projects reconsider the role of blindness and non-visual forms of representation in early modern art and natural philosophy.

Selected publications

• Touching colors: notes on the making of tact-similes

  Von-Ow, P., 1 Jul 2026, In: Studiolo. 2026, 21, p. 108-127

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Centenary of Erwin Panofsky’s lecture, “Perspective as symbolic form”

  Von-Ow, P., 30 Jan 2025, Online : Warburg Institute.

  Research output: Other contribution

• An early film adaptation of Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones at Yale University

  Meacham, B., Noble, Y. & Von-Ow, P., 15 May 2024, In: Écrans. 2023-2, 20, p. 81-95

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Hogarth through a camera: Bedlam from print to film

  Von-Ow, P., 15 May 2024, In: Écrans. 2023-2, 20, p. 199-229

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Mike Leigh on Hogarth: interview by Pierre Von-Ow

  Von-Ow, P., 15 May 2024, In: Écrans. 2023-2, 20, p. 245-265

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

• William Hogarth et le cinéma

  Von-Ow, P. (Editor) & Guden, M. (Editor), 15 May 2024, In: Écrans. 2023-2, 20, 295 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review

• Open access

  William Hogarth's topographies

  Von-Ow, P., 1 May 2022

  Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition

• Propos filmiques: En pure perte

  Von-Ow, P. (Editor), Lebensztejn, J.-C. & Camporesi, E. (Editor), 2021, 1st ed. Paris: Éditions Macula. 396 p. (Le film)

  Research output: Book/Report › Anthology

• Open access

  The Burden of Names

  Von-Ow, P., Oct 2017, In: OAR: The Oxford Artistic and Practice Based Research Platform. 2, p. 106-124

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Joseph Grigely: Conversation Pieces

  Von-Ow, P., May 2016, In: Octopus Notes. 6, 158 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue

 

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