Itay Sapir, Université du Québec à Montréal

Research

Read how they describe their research on their Université du Québec à Montréal profile.

Latest funding

Postwar Renaissance: studying, exhibiting, teaching and Appropriating Early Modern European Art in Four "New Nations", 1950-1990 (East Germany, Francoist Spain, Israel, Québec)
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
$45,173
Before the "Great Divide": The Shared Language(s) of Art and Science in the Early Modern Period
SSHRC · 2019 · Co-investigator
$24,591
Before the "Great Divide": The Shared Language(s) of Art and Science in the Early Modern Period
SSHRC · 2019 · Co-investigator
$177,469

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Postwar Renaissance: studying, exhibiting, teaching and Appropriating Early Modern European Art in Four "New Nations", 1950-1990 (East Germany, Francoist Spain, Israel, Québec)

Principal investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Sapir, Itay

Keywords: Historiography of art; Renaissance; Baroque; Postwar; National identity; Cold war; politics and aesthetics

$45,173

Before the "Great Divide": The Shared Language(s) of Art and Science in the Early Modern Period

Co-investigatorSSHRC2019Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Ribouillault, Denis

Keywords: art; science; history of art; history of science; body; senses; early modern; Italy; Europe; socio-cultural history; intermediality; interdisciplinarity; gardens; sundials; death; art theory; feathers; instruments; rhetoric; poetry; mathematics

$24,591

Before the "Great Divide": The Shared Language(s) of Art and Science in the Early Modern Period

Co-investigatorSSHRC2019Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Ribouillault, Denis

Keywords: art; science; history of art; history of science; body; senses; early modern; Italy; Europe; socio-cultural history; intermediality; interdisciplinarity; gardens; sundials; death; art theory; feathers; instruments; rhetoric; poetry; mathematics

$177,469

Coping with copia: epistemological excess in early modern art and science

Principal investigatorSSHRC2014

Principal investigators: Sapir, Itay

Keywords: psychologie; sociologie; prévention du suicide; développement social; recherche pluridisciplinaire; culture; étude comparative; politiques publiques; santé mentale; philosophie; travail social; arts; communications; sciences humaines et de la santé

$15,270

Dying and Time: Depictions of the Moment of Death in Early Modern Italian Painting.

Principal investigatorSSHRC2014Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Sapir, Itay

Keywords: Renaissance art; Baroque art; Death and dying; Temporality of painting

$44,025

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor Sapir, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Postwar Renaissance: studying, exhibiting, teaching and Appropriating Early Modern European Art in Four "New Nations", 1950-1990 (East Germany, Francoist Spain, Israel, Québec)" (2025), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]