Eston Adams receives Doctoral Dissertation Completion Award

Navicella Mosaic at St. Peter’s, Rome

Eston Adams (PhD Candidate; mentor: Professor Chris Fulton) is a recipient of a SIGS Doctoral Dissertation Completion Award for the fall 2018 semester. He will be defending his dissertation, “The History and Signification of the Navicella Mosaic at St. Peter’s, Rome,” in late November. Writing on this subject delves into such rich topics as the life and legacy of St. Peter the Apostle, pilgrimage to his relics, the demolition of Old St. Peter’s and the building of New St. Peter’s, and the evidence for Giotto’s lost masterpiece, the Navicella.