Dr. Magdalene Breidenthal

Dr. Magdalene Breidenthal received her PhD in Art History from Yale University and is a specialist in Byzantine art. Her research focuses on monumental painting and its viewing conditions in Byzantine church interiors. She was the 2015-2018 Paul Mellon Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, and teaches art history courses at Fordham University and Queens College, CUNY.