Dr Péter Bokody is an art historian, with research focus on the emergence of painting as a complex, gendered and political medium in renaissance Italy and the aftermath of this transformation in the early modern world. He is the author of Images-within-Images in Italian Painting (1250–1350): Reality and Reflexivity (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015) and The Imagery and Politics of Sexual Violence in Early Renaissance Italy (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2023). Integrating his research into heritage practice, Péter curated the exhibition Image and Christianity at the Benedictine Archabbey of Pannonhalma (Hungary, 2014) and currently leads an AHRC-funded project on the interpretation of the 17th-century plaster ceiling at Lanhydrock House (National Trust). He held research fellowships at BildEvidenz (Freie Universität, Berlin), Niki - Istituto Universitario Olandese (Florence), Kunsthistorisches Institut (Max Planck Institut, Florence) and the Index of Christian Art (Princeton University, Princeton). Before coming to Plymouth in 2014, Péter taught art history at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (Budapest, 2013) and McDaniel College (Budapest, 2007-13). 

Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)
International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA)
Association of Art Historians (AAH)
Italian Art Society (IAS)
Art and Christianity Enquiry (ACE)
Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA)

Chair, History of Art, Architecture and Design Subject Benchmark Statement, Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, United Kingdom
External Examiner, History of Art BA, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford (2022-)
External Examiner, History of Art MA, The Open University, Milton Keynes (2023-)
External Examiner, History of Art MA, Medieval Section, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London (2021-2024)

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Chair of the 2026 QAA Subject Benchmark Statement for the History of Art, Design and Architecture, Péter is in the frontline of pedagogical innovations for the study of images and heritage. His strong belief in empowering students through a commitment to object-focused study, interdisciplinarity and critical theory underpins his teaching practice. He welcomes postgraduate students interested in meta-images, late medieval and early modern visual culture, gender studies, political iconography and heritage practice.