Andrea Mattiello holds a PhD from the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham. His research focuses on the art, architecture and visual cultural production of the Palaiologan period. In particular, he has worked on cross-cultural interactions at the court of Mystras in relation to the agency of the Italian and Frankish wives of the Byzantine despots of Morea, and on late Medieval and early Modern image production in the context of the exchanges between Greek scholars and Italian humanists.

Maria Alessia Rossi completed her Ph.D. at The Courtauld Institute of Art in 2017 and is currently the Samuel H. Kress Postdoctoral Researcher at the Index of Medieval Art at Princeton University. Her main research interests include Medieval art and architecture in the Byzantine and Slavic cultural spheres; artistic production and patronage in the Mediterranean; cross-cultural contacts and eclecticism in art between the Eastern and Western Christian world; the role of the miraculous; image theory; and gender theory.