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My name is Kristin Aavitsland, and I am a Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute for Archeology and Art History in Rome. I am an art historian working on a PhD project on the iconography of a late 13th cent. fresco cycle in the Roman Abbey of Tre Fontane. Now badly damaged, this monumental fresco decoration once exhibited a splendid range of allegories and similtudines related to the earthly life of man, some of them based upon ideas drawn from 13th century encyclopaedic learning. As I am investigating the content and the visual language of this unconventional work of art, my perspective is an interdisciplinary one. I am generally interested in the connections between text and image in late medieval culture. My iconographical studies have brought me into the reading of Italian bestiaries, treatises on natural history and the use of natural history in sermon literature. If anyone on the list has knowlegde to share with me in this field, I would be glad to hear from you. My personal e-mail adress is <[log in to unmask]>. Best regards from Kristin B. Aavitsland Kristin Bliksrud Aavitsland research fellow/dott.ssa di storia dell'arte Istituto di Norvegia di archeologia e storia dell'arte VIALE TRENTA APRILE, 33 I-00153 ROMA, ITALIA Tel.: + 39 06 58 39 10 03 Fax.: + 39 06 58 80 604 e-mail: [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%