Matan
Aviel

Matan Aviel is a PhD candidate in art history researching funerary monuments in southern Italy between the late Middle Ages and the early Renaissance. He focuses on unique or unusual monuments, such as tombs that demand visitors walk under or around them or tombs that invite visitors to sit on them. The project aims to reconsider special tomb monuments and understand their significance and what they can reveal about the experiences they enveloped their beholders in.

Matan aims to understand the significance of special tomb monuments and what they can reveal about the experiences in which they enveloped their beholders.

Matan earned a joint BSc in mathematics and art history and an MA in art history from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He grew up in Sunnyvale, California, and Tel Mond, and now lives in Jerusalem with his partner. He volunteered with the Jewish Agency for Israel as a young emissary in greater New Haven, Connecticut, and as an educational guide in Gondar, Ethiopia. Outside academia, Matan enjoys pottery making and dancing.