Johan Eriksson
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Art History; Art History
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 29 57
- E-mail:
- johan.eriksson@konstvet.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken,
Thunbergsvägen 3H
752 38 UPPSALA - Postal address:
- Box 630
751 26 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
Johan Eriksson is Head of Department, Director of the Master Programme in Digital Art History, LMS Coordinator and Chair of JSPS SAC. His research focuses on early modern cultural transfer, history of collections, visual communication, digital art history and digital pedagogy.
Merits: PhD, Docent, Distinguished Teacher
Projects: Italian Paintings, Renässansens perspektiv, Renässansens rum, Tessin d.ä.-projektet, The digital seminar, The Virtual Museum, Visual Communication in Early Modern Japan.
Keywords
- digital humanities
- visual culture
- renaissance
- virtual reality
- digital art history
- digital pedagogy
- italian art
- japanese art
- virtual museums
- visual communication
- tessin the elder

Publications
Recent publications
All publications
Articles in journal
Sacred sites, abandoned abbeys: Sustainable heritage tourism in Southern Sweden
2025
Part of Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, 2023
The Virtual Museum: Digital Reconstructions of the Kongl. Museum at the Royal Palace in Stockholm
Part of Passages online, 2023
Caroli Church: A Resource for Urban Regeneration?
Part of EdA esempi di archittura, p. 73-92, 2022
2022
Blickar och betydelser: Digitala rekonstruktioner av tavelhängningarna på Stockholms slott 1795–1866
Part of 1700-tal: Nordic Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, p. 79-103, 2019
Part of Art Bulletin of Nationalmuseum Stockholm, p. 113-114, 2010
The Martelli Collection: further notes towards its history
Part of Art Bulletin of Nationalmuseum Stockholm, p. 77-86, 2009
Part of YOUMEÅ, Konsthögskolan, Umeå universitet, p. 44-47, 2006
Eva Sundler Malmnäs: lärare, handledare och mentor
Part of Eidos, p. 21-22, 2004
’Synligitt schick efter architectiskt maneer’: Italienska influenser i riksfästen och Vasaresidens
Part of Ad familiares. Tidskrift för Sällskapet för renässans- och barockstudier., p. 139-154, 2004
Visuell retorik i renässansfurstarnas Italien
Part of Forskardagarna, 2002
Il Siluro: en futuristisk skapelse
Part of Klöverbladet, p. 10-11, 2000
Doktorandkursen i bysantinologi i Turkiet 6-22.10 1995
Part of Eidos, p. 5-11, 1995
Books
Editorial Committee of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome, 2020
Italian Paintings: Three centuries of collecting. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. vol 1
Nationalmuseum, 2015
Uppsala universitet, 2001
Chapters in book
Osvald Sirén: From the Italian Renaissance to the Far East
Part of Swedish Art Historiography, p. 157-163, Nordic Academic Press, 2022
Advertising War: The Visual Communication of the Italian Condottiere Princes
Part of Die Kapitalisierung des Krieges, p. 323-342, LIT Verlag, 2021
Vasa's Visual World: Myth, History and Visual Rhetoric
Part of Skulpturerna på Vasa, p. 27-41, The Vasa Museum, 2020
Vasas bildvärld: Myt, historia och visuell retorik
Part of Skulpturerna på Vasa, p. 27-42, Vasamuseet/Statens maritima och transporthistoriska museer, 2020
Observations and Thoughts on the Symposium
Part of Medieval Murals in the Church Attics of Östergötland, p. 108-111, Type and Tell, 2016
Iconography, Narrative and Meaning - Situating the Romanesque Mural Paitnings in Östergötland
Part of Medieval Murals in the Churhc Attics of Östergötland, p. 84-97, Type and Tell, 2016
Part of Hedvig Eleonora - den svenska barockens drottning, p. 162-163, Kungl. Husgerådskammren, Votum & Gullers Förlag, 2015
Part of Hedvig Eleonora – den svenska barockens drottning, p. 160-161, Kungl. Husgerådskammren, Votum & Gullers Förlag, 2015
Advertising War: Images of the Italian Condottiere Princes
Part of Die Kapitalisierung des Krieges, Universitätsverlag Potsdam, 2012
Nicodemus Tessin den äldres Sjöö: en palladiansk villa vid Mälaren
Part of Sjöö slott, p. 49-70, Hallgren & Björklund, 2008
Piero della Francescas scenografi
Part of Etyder tillägnade Eva Sundler Malmnäs, p. 11-18, Konstvetenskapliga institutionen, Stockholms universitet, 2004
Part of Identitet, p. 39-49, Raster förlag, 2002
Branding among the Condottieri
Part of Identity, p. 39-49, Nationalmuseum, 2002
Tre osmanska pärlor - Çinili Kösk, Rüstem Pasha Camii och Sokollu Mehmed Pasha Camii
Part of Exkursion till Turkiet, p. 57-70, Konstvetenskapliga institutionen, Stockholms universitet, 1996
Kandinsky - En spegel av tiden
Part of Med buss till barocken, p. 149-154, Konstvetenskapliga institutionen, Stockholms universitet, 1996
Conference papers
2025
The Virtual Museum as a driving force for knowledge, accessibility and preservation
2025
Kongl. Museum at the Royal Palace - A Digital Reconstruction
2024
Physical Castles and Virtual Museums
2024
Giovanni Maria Butteri’s Sacra Conversazione: A Visual Manifestation of the Medici-Orsini Alliance
2023
Caroli Church: An Obstacle or a Catalyst for Urban Regeneration?
2022
The Virtual Museum: Digital Reconstructions of the Kongl. Museum at the Royal Palace in Stockholm
2022
Italian Paintings at the Nationalmuseum: Market, Musealization, Materiality
2022
2021
The Virtual Museum as Art Historical Method
2021
Italienskt måleri på Nationalmuseum: 300 år av samlande
2019
Renässansens perspektiv: Virtuella världar i det tidigmoderna Italien
2019
Den nätbaserade undervisningens utmaningar och möjligheter
2019
The Virtual Museum: A Digital Reconstruction of the Display of Art at the Royal Palace
2018
The Virtual Museum: A Digital Reconstruction of the Display of Art in the Royal Palace, 1795-1866
2017
Guidoccio Cozzarelli's The Adoration of the Magi
2017
The Virtual Museum at the Royal Palace 1795-1866: Serious Games in Action
2017
The Eclectic Architecture of Nicodemus Tessin the Elder
2016
Reception of Caravaggio in Sweden: From the Royal Collections to the Nationalmuseum
2013
Sala dei Palafrenieri in Palazzo Lancellotti as an expression of Romanità
2008
Hesperis – The Odyssey transferred to the court of Sigismondo Malatesta
2006
Manuscripts (preprints)
Monograph doctoral thesis
Reports
Other
2020
Burri, gli artisti e la materia 1945-2004
Part of Konsthistorisk Tidskrift, p. 204-207, 2006
Part of Konsthistorisk Tidskrift, p. 131-134, 1999
Part of Konsthistorisk Tidskrift, p. 189-191, 1998
Jan Anrep-Bjurlings Rättfärdiggörelse genom tro
Part of Eidos, p. 11-12, 1994