DEPARTMENTS

Marina Ileana Sabados, senior researcher, graduated in Art Theory and History from the "N. Grigorescu" Art Institute (currently the National University of Arts). PhD in Art History with a thesis on 16th Century Moldavian painting on wood (Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj,  supervisor: Academician Marius Porumb). Member of the Department for Medieval Art and Architecture since 1990. She served as Director ad interim of G. Oprescu Institute in April 2011. Since May 2011 until her retirement, in December 2014, she has held the position of deputy director. 
Contact:
- e-mail address: sabadusileana52@gmail.com; - correspondence: Institutul de Istoria Artei "G. Oprescu", Calea Victoriei 196, sector 1, 010098 - Bucharest, Romania

GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

- Warburg Institute, London, Andrew W. Mellon grant, working on Western Influence on 17-18th C Moldavian Icon Painting (2001)
- Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art (INHA), Paris, a French government grant for research on Western Influence on 17th C Romanian Icon Painting, 2002;
- Participation in various exchange programs of the Romanian Academy: research residencies in Bulgaria, Poland, UK, the Republic of Macedonia, Ukraine.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Programs of the Romanian Academy:

- contribution to the Compendium of Romanian Medieval Art (six chapters)

- contribution to Encyclopedia of Romanian Medieval Art (50 entries)

Personal projects:
- Repertory of Moldavian icons in the 16^th century (1991–1994)
- Repertory of Moldavian icons in the 17^th century (1995-1997)
Romanian Academy Grant:
- The Art of the Moldavian Iconostasis between Byzantine Tradition and Central and West European Styles (2007-2008)
National research projects:

- Text and Image in the Romanian Painting of the 16th Century (2011-2014)

TEACHING

Courses in iconography and in the history of icon painting at The National University of Arts (2000-2001, 2003-2004) and at The University of Bucharest’s Faculty of Letters (2005-2006).

BOOKS

Catedrala Episcopiei Romanului, Editura Episcopiei Romanului şi Huşilor, Bucureşti, 1990 [Romanian-English bilingual edition, 175 p., 240 ill.];

Grigorescu la Agapia, Editura Doxologia, Iaşi, 2012, 240 p., 207 il. + 37 plates, ISBN 978-606-8278-29-2.





PAPERS IN EDITED VOLUMES

EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

- editor of the exhibition catalogue Arta din Moldova de la Ştefan cel Mare la Movileşti, National Museum of Art of Romania (August – October 1999); authored the chapters on icons and wood sculpture;
- contribution to the catalogues of several exhibitions in Romania and abroad: Muzeul Naţional de Artă al României. Ghidul colecţiilor, 1999: Arta Ţării Româneşti în secolele XIV-XVI, National Museum of Art of Romania (March – June 2001); Deomene, National Museum of Ravenna, Italy (March – June 2001).

ARTICLES (SELECTION)
'Schiţă de studiu asupra iconostaselor din secolul al XVIII-lea, din judeţul Suceava', Suceava. Anuarul Muzeului Judeţean, VI-VII, 1979-1980, p. 321-339
'Ursul - un zugrav moldovean de la începutul secolului al XVIII-lea', Studii şi Cercetări de Istoria Artei. Seria Artă Plastică, Tome 34, 1987, p. 15-27
'Une icône moldave inconnue du commencement du XVI^e siècle', Revue Roumaine d'Histoire de l'Art. Série Beaux-Arts, Tome XXVIII, 1991, p. 3-10
'Iconografie şi stil în pictura moldovenească din secolul al XVI-lea: pictu­ră murală, icoane, miniaturi. Vedere comparativă', Ars Transsil­vaniae, III, 1993, p. 41-55
'La peinture d'icônes au temps de Pierre Rareş', Revue Roumaine d'Histoire de l'Art. Série Beaux-Arts, Tome XXXI (1994), p. 29-71
'Icônes roumaines du XVI^e siècle illustrant des cycles hagio­graphiques', Izkustvo. Art in Bulgaria, 33-34/1996, p. 39-44
'Din nou despre ­"comoara" de icoane de la Văleni - Piatra Neamţ', Studii şi Cercetări de Istoria Artei. Seria Artă Plastică, Tome 44 (1997), p. 3-31
'Deux icônes moldaves du XVI^e siècle illustrant le X^e oikos de l'Hymne Acathiste',  Revue Roumaine d'Histoire de l'Art. Série Beaux-Arts, Tome XXXV, 1998, p. 45-56
'Le don du voïvode Ştefan Lăcustă de Moldavie à l'église des Serbes de Constantinople', Zograf, nr. 28, 2000-2001, Beograd, p. 139-142
'Influences occidentales dans la peinture roumaine d'icônes du XVII^e siècle', Revue Roumaine d'Histoire de l'Art. Série Beaux-Arts, Tomes XXXIX-XL (2002-2003), p. 33-67
'Icône' - entry in Dictionnaire Mondial des Images (Sous la direction de Laurent Gervereau), Editions des Nouveaux Mondes, Paris, 2006, p.502-504
'La datation des iconostases de Humor et de Voroneţ', Revue Roumaine d'Histoire de l'Art. Série Beaux-Arts, Tome XLV, 2008, p. 67-76
'L'iconostase de Moldoviţa: un répère dans l'évolution de l'iconostase moldave', Series Byzantina, VI, 2008, Warsaw, p. 27-43
'Vechi icoane ruseşti la mănăstirea Putna', Ars Transsilvaniae, XIX, 2009
'Iconografia crucilor sculptate din Moldova în secolul al XVI-lea', Ars Transsilvaniae, Tom XX, 2010, p. 69-77
'L’iconostase de Rădeana-Bacău', Revue Roumaine d'Histoire de l'Art. Série Beaux-Arts, Tome XLVII, 2010, p. 31-55
« Icônes des peintres russes Kirill et Vassili Oulanov dans la région de Suceava », RRHA.BA, Tome XLVIII, 2011, p. 139-148  

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
"Au carrefour de deux mentalités artistiques: les voies de l'iconostase moldave aux XVIe-XVIIe siècles", at the conference Byzantium and Renaissances. Dialogue of Cultures, Heritage of Antiquity – Tradition and Modernity, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies "Artes Liberales" of the Warsaw University, 19-21 October 2011.
"The Narrative Approach în the Iconography of Byzantine Tradition. The Case of a 16th Century Wallachian Icon", at the International Symposium Byzantine World: Regional Traditions in Artistic Life and Problems of their Investigation, Moscow, Ministry for Culture of Russian Federation, 8-9 October 2012