Dominika Kaszubska M.A.

May - Sept. 2025
Classical Archaeology
2023 – ongoing
PhD Student in Analysis and Managment of Cultural Heritage, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca
Supervisors: Prof. Riccardo Olivito, Prof. Maria Luisa Catoni
2022 – 2023
Post-graduate School of Archaeology (Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Archeologici), Univeristy of Padua.
Thesis: Storie di collezionismo: ceramiche attiche e magnogreche della Collezione Merlin
Supervisors: Prof. Monica Salvadori, Prof. Monica Baggio
2019 – 2022
MA in Classical Archaeology, Univeristy of Pisa
Thesis: Motivi a tappezzeria nella pittura vesuviana
Supervisors: Prof. Anna Anguissola, Prof. Domenico Esposito
2016 – 2019
BA in Cultural Heritage - Archaeological Curriculum
Thesis: Le rappresentazioni sportive nella società minoica
Supervisor: Prof. Gianpaolo Graziadio
2024
Organisational Committee - Iconography 2024. Levels of unreality, metaverse and the worlds of images
IMT School for Advanced Studies
2022 – 2023
Member of MemO (University of Padua)
Analysis, cataloguing and digitization of the Merlin collection.
2020 – 2022
Member of Praedia Project (Archaeological Park of Pompeii, Univeristy of Pisa, IMT School for Advanced Studies)
Rethinking Roman Wall Paintings: Style, Anachronism and Co-existence
Based on August Mau's classification, Roman Wall Paintings are usually divided in four chronologically successive categories called "style". In studies following Mau's work, we generally find a very formalistic use of this system that doesn't reflect perfectly the archaeological reality. In fact, Vesuvian area points out to a widespread coexistance of different styles and to phanomena such as imitations, anachronisms or restorations which hardly fit into the rigid system now in use. By questioning the concept of "style", the project aims to reconsider the role and the function of wall paintings when analyzed under non-stylistical criteria and mainly in relation to the architectural changes.