April 18, 2017
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Elena Dana Prioteasa is a researcher at the Institute of Archaeology and History of Art in Cluj-Napoca. Her research focuses on iconography and medieval painting in Transylvania. After an initial career as a medical doctor (MD 1995, specialist physician in laboratory medicine 1999) she has dedicated her time to the study of art history: BA (2000) and MA (2001) from the Faculty of History and Philosophy of the "Babeș-Bolyai" University in Cluj-Napoca, and MA (2002) and PhD (2012) from the Department of Medieval Studies of Central European University in Budapest.