Dr Sofya Dmitrieva

Sofya is the Astra Foundation Research Assistant in Digital Iconography at the Voltaire Foundation. Building on an extensive collection generously donated to the Foundation by Professor Samuel Taylor, she is developing an open-access digital archive of visual representations of Voltaire. The resulting database will feature high-quality reproductions of Voltaire’s portraits in a variety of media, accompanied by art historical commentary, and offer advanced tools for tracing the evolution of his image.

Before joining the Voltaire Foundation and St Edmund Hall, Sofya worked at the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte (DFK Paris), where she was responsible for devising and creating The Art Collection of the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture database. She holds a PhD and an MLitt in Art History from the University of St Andrews.

Dmitrieva, Sofya, Anne Klammt, and Markus Castor (eds.), The Académie Royale Art Collection: Vol. I Reception Pieces (forthcoming in the DFK Paris/University of Heidelberg Passages online series)

Dmitrieva, Sofya, Fleeting Meanings: The Temporality of Genre Painting and the Eighteenth-Century Metamorphosis of the Allegorical Series (forthcoming in the Honoré Champion Études Internationales sur le Dix-Huitième Siècle series)

Dmitrieva, Sofya, ‘The Age of Curiosity: Voyeurship in Eighteenth-Century France’, in Signum and Simulacrum. Traces and Indices in the Marble of Eighteenth-Century French Sculpture, ed. Marthe Kretzschmar and Markus Castor (forthcoming in the DFK Paris/University of Heidelberg Passages online series)

Dmitrieva, Sofya, ‘The Art Collection of the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture: Notes on the Database’, https://www.journal18.org/nq/the-art-collection-of-the-french-royal-academy-of-painting-and-sculpture-notes-on-the-database-by-sofya-dmitrieva/

Dmitrieva, Sofya and Patrizia Di Bello (eds.), Reproductions (special issue), History of Photography 46, no. 1 (2022), https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/thph20/46/1

Dmitrieva, Sofya, ‘Carle Van Loo at the 1737 Salon’, The Burlington Magazine 164, no. 1430 (May 2022), pp. 473-477, https://www.burlington.org.uk/archive/back-issues/202205

Dmitrieva, Sofya, ‘Проблема жанра во французской теории искусства XVIII века’, Iskusstvoznaniye 1 (2021), pp. 52-65, https://artstudies.sias.ru/upload/isk/isk_2021_1_52-65_dmitrieva.pdf

Dmitrieva, Sofya and Margarita Shabayeva (eds.), Искусство в движении / Moveable Art [conference papers] (Moscow: Higher School of Economics, 2018).