Ioli Kalavrezou

Ioli Kalavrezou is Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine Art at Harvard University. Her research focuses on early Christian and Byzantine art.

Career Prior to joining Harvard, Kalavrezou taught at UCLA and at LMU Munich.

"Byzantine Women" Exhibition In 2002, Kalavrezou curated an exhibit at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard called "Byzantine Women and their World," Unlike previous exhibitions focused on the high art of the Byzantine court and church, this exhibit examine the daily lives of "unexceptional" Byzantine women, challenging the notion that their existence was powerless. Byzantine icons in steatite (1985) Steatite carvings of the middle Byzantine Period (1977)