Professional profile
History of Medieval Art | History of Illuminated Manuscripts | Digital Technologies for Cultural Heritage | Semantic Web for Cultural Heritage
She graduated in Cultural Heritage, specialising in Art History, from the University of Lecce, where she obtained a PhD in Southern Art History between the Middle Ages and the Modern Age in relation to the Eastern and Western Mediterranean.
She has been involved in the study of illuminated manuscripts since her degree thesis, focusing on works produced mainly in southern Italy during her PhD.
She has been conducting interdisciplinary research on illuminated manuscripts at the CNR for years, collaborating with colleagues engaged in complementary non-invasive diagnostic investigations within E-RIHS.it, the Italian node of the European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science (E-RIHS). As part of these initiatives, she focuses on characterising materials, reconstructing execution techniques and assessing the state of conservation of book artefacts.
Starting from a humanities background, over the years he has acquired extensive technological skills in the design of advanced digital environments, tools, and services aimed at increasing knowledge, improving the conservation, and promoting the enhancement of cultural heritage, with an interdisciplinary approach and in accordance with the principles of Open Science, participating in various national and European projects.
For several years, she has been involved in the design and implementation of the DIGILAB platform for E-RIHS.it, the Italian node of the European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science (E-RIHS) and its interconnected subsystems.
In particular, she is dealing with:
- study of models and technological solutions to support the accessibility, interoperability, and reuse of scientific data (data FAIRness) in the Cultural Heritage domain;
- definition of models and software architectures for data interoperability between heterogeneous information systems; analysis, description, and formal representation of operational processes aimed at understanding, preserving, and using Cultural Heritage;
- reconstruction and representation of the workflows of diagnostic techniques used in the study of Cultural Heritage;
- analysis of the relevant scientific datasets and identification of specific descriptive metadata;
- designing ontological models to create a shared understanding of knowledge representation in the field of Cultural Heritage;
- semantic mapping of digital resources with ontological reference models for Cultural Heritage.
CNR Disciplinary Fields and Research Management Sectors
- SH8_1 Science and Technologies for Cultural Heritage
- SH8_5 History of art and of architecture
- IR Management of research infrastructures, laboratories and facilities, digital technologies for research
Groups & Labs CNR ISPC
Manuscripts and Archives Research Group →
Digital Heritage Innovation Lab →
Publications
Highlight
A. Chirivì, E. Pietroni, M. Greco, A. Pandurino, A. Bucciero (2026), An Evolving Scenario in the Study of Illuminated Manuscripts: Innovative Approaches to Research Questions, in Innovative Digital Methodologies to Enhance Documentation, Knowledge and Accessibility to Manuscripts, Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, 40 (2026, e00496). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.daach.2026.e00496
E. Pietroni, A. Chirivì, M. Greco, A. Pandurino, A. Bucciero, A. Lupinacci, R. Aloisi, M. Cozza (2025), The Illuminated Manuscripts pilot project: a hub dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of ancient codices, integrated into the DigiLab-IT platform, in DIGITAL HERITAGE (2025), 8 – 13 September 2025 Siena, Italy. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2312/dh.20253210
E. Pietroni, A. Botteon, D. Buti, A. Chirivì, C. Colombo, C. Conti, A.L Di Carlo, D. Magrini, F. Mercuri, N. Orazi, M. Realini, “Codex 4D” Project: Interdisciplinary Investigations on Materials and Colors of De Balneis Puteolanis (Angelica Library, Rome, Ms. 1474), Heritage 2024, 7, 2755-2791. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage7060131
