At the seat of the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA), in Paris, the 2015 Prix Marc de Montalembert was presented by Mr. Philippe Morel, professor of modern art history and director of Centre d’Histoire de l’Art de la Renaissance at Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, to Joana BARRETO, docteur en histoire de l’art moderne of Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, for her research entitled « Naples, carrefour artistique entre Occident, Afrique et Orient » at the time of the Aragon during the XVth century. On this occasion Dr Allegra IAFRATE, art historian from Italy and winner of the 2014 Prix Marc de Montalembert delivered a lecture entitled “ Concerning the throne and other salomonic objects : notes on a shared tradition in the Medieval Mediterranean ” and presenting the results of her research on “The Wandering Throne of Solomon : a study of a shared cultural symbol in the Medieval Mediterranean”. These results have been submitted to a publisher for publication.
