Author: Ralf van Bühren
Bio: **Professor at the Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Rome**
- School of Communication
- School of Theology (Department of Church History; Institute of Liturgy)

**Research areas**
• Art and Church in the 20th and 21st centuries
• Second Vatican Council (1962–1965). Documents, history and reception
• History of art and architecture (Late Antiquity, Medieval, Modern, Contemporary)
• Aesthetics and spirituality
• Rhetorics, Communication, Iconography of Art
• Liturgical art. History, mystagogical understanding, and liturgical formation
• Cultural journalism and Pastoral attention to the Cultural Heritage of the Church 
  (catechesis, religious education, popular piety, guided tours, internet, liturgy, sermon)
• History of art and architecture in Rome
• Popes and artists in the 20th and 21st centuries. From Pius X to Francis
• Catholic Church’s magisterium on art and artists (Apostolic See, Bishops’ Conferences)