Campus Digest

Academy of Visual Arts scholar awarded Renaissance Studies Article Prize

Wednesday, 21 September 2023

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Dr Angelo Lo Conte is awarded the prestigious Renaissance Studies Article Prize.
The winning article written by Dr Angelo Lo Conte.

Dr Angelo Lo Conte, Associate Professor of the Academy of Visual Arts, has been recently awarded the prestigious Renaissance Studies Article Prize by the Society for Renaissance Studies for his groundbreaking article titled A Visual Testament by Luca Riva, a Deaf and Mute Pupil of the Procaccini.

The honour was presented in Liverpool on the occasion of the 10th Biennial Conference of the Society for Renaissance Studies. The Society commended that the article takes an impressively interdisciplinary approach to a remarkable source that provides a uniquely intimate encounter with the life, experiences and commu­nicative strategies of a prelingually deaf artist, Luca Riva.

The Society also said that the study sparks the imagination, skilfully blending art historical techniques with scholarly approaches to legal history in order to approach the source material from multiple angles. In doing so, it deftly reconstructs Luca Riva’s world in order to offer a fresh perspective on the Italian renaissance and on how our understanding of it can be transformed through the lens of disability studies.

Expressing his gratitude, Dr Lo Conte said that he is honoured to receive such a prestigious international prize and he is grateful to the selection committee, the Editor of Renaissance Studies and HKBU, and to the Research Grant Council of Hong Kong for funding the study.