Notes on the Contributors
Malcolm Baker
is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Art History, at the University of California, Riverside. His books include The Marble Index. Roubiliac and Eighteeenth-Century Sculptural Portraiture (2014); Fame and Friendship: Pope, Roubiliac and the Portrait Bust (Rothschild Foundation, 2014); Figured in Marble. The Making and Viewing of Eighteenth-Century Sculpture (2000); Roubiliac and the Eighteenth-Century Monument. Sculpture as Theatre (co-authored with David Bindman, 1995); Renaissance and Later Sculpture in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection (co-authored with Michael Maek-Gérard and Anthony Radcliffe, 1991). His co-edited books include: Sculpture Collections in Europe and North America 1500–1930. Variety and Ambiguity (co-edited with Inge Reist, 2021); Art as Worldmaking. Critical Essays on Realism and Naturalism (co-edited with Andrew Hemingway, 2018); A Grand Design. The Art of the Victoria and Albert Museum (co-edited with Brenda Richardson, 1997).
Martijn van Beek
is Ph.D. candidate in Architectural History in the department of Art & Culture, History and Antiquity at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). His dissertation explores the epistemological and metaphorical function of architecture in erudite writing in the early modern period, with a particular focus on the illustrated manuscripts of Juan Ricci de Guevara. He completed his Masters in Visual Art, Media and Architecture at the VU with a thesis on the modernist reception of the seventeenth-century architect Guarino Guarini.
Miranda L. Elston
is Ph.D. candidate at University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill working with Dr. Tania String. Her dissertation project, “Spatial Interaction: Architectural Representation in Early Tudor England,” explores the theme of sixteenth-century experience and perception of architectural space through literary and pictorial examples. She has worked as a researcher and digital developer for Local Projects, where she consulted on digital installations for the National Building Museum, the National Museum of American Jewish History, and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. She is currently teaching at Elon University, and previously taught at the University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill and Parsons, The New School in New York City.
Alison C. Fleming
is Professor of Art History at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina. Her research principally investigates art in the service of religious orders in the Renaissance and Baroque periods, especially the visual culture of the Society of Jesus. She is Associate Editor of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Jesuits (2017). A series of forthcoming articles examine art connected to the life, miracles, and relics of St. Francis Xavier, including his tomb in Goa and his arm relic in Il Gesu, Rome. She has also written articles on images of Ignatius of Loyola, including “St. Ignatius of Loyola’s ‘Vision at La Storta’ and the Foundation of the Society of Jesus,” in Foundation, Dedication and Consecration in Early Modern Europe (2011), and “The ‘Roles’ of Illustrations of the Life of St. Ignatius of Loyola,” in Visibile Teologia: Il Libro Sacro Figurato in Italia tra Cinquecento e Seicento (2012).
Daniel Fulco
currently serves as Agnita M. Stine Schreiber Curator at the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts (Hagerstown, Maryland, USA). Previously, he worked as Assistant Director and Curator of the New Britain Museum of American Art (Connecticut). Fulco received his Ph.D. (2014) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also teaches art history for Shepherd University (Shepherdstown, West Virginia) and the University of Maryland Global Campus. A scholar of European and American art from the 17th to the 19th centuries, his research also engages with the exhibition of Islamic art at world’s fairs. Fulco is the author of the monograph Exuberant Apotheoses: Italian Frescoes in the Holy Roman Empire, Visual Culture and Princely Power in the Age of Enlightenment (2016).
Lea Hagedorn
is Research Associate of the CRC 1285 “Invectivity. Constellations and Dynamics of Disparagement” in the art historical Research Project “Parodies and Pasquinads. Form and Formation of Modernisation Processes in Early Modern Art”. She studied Art History, Religious Studies, and Philosophy in Münster. In 2017 and 2018 she worked at the Herzog August Library, Wolfenbüttel, as a Research Associate for the project Bildpolitik. Das Autorenporträt als ikonische Autorisierung, supported by the Marbach-Weimar-Wolfenbüttel Research Association (MWW). Her research explores early modern portrait prints and portrait books of the sixteenth century. In 2020 she has published Das Museum im Buch. Paolo Giovios Elogia und die Porträtsammelwerke des 16. Jahrhunderts. Together with Daniel Berndt, Hole Rößler and Ellen Strittmatter she edited the volume, Bildnispolitik der Autorschaft. Visuelle Inszenierungen von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart (Göttingen: 2018).
Constanze Keilholz
is Head Librarian in the Department of Art History at the University of Bonn. Her main research interests are book illustration, art theory and the representation of artists in the early modern period.
Fabian Kolb
is teaching and research assistant at the department of musicology at Mainz University. He studied musicology, Romance studies and philosophy in Bonn and Cologne, where he was part of the research project “Opera in Italy and Germany between 1770 and 1830” (2002–2007). In 2010 he received his Ph.D. from Cologne University with a dissertation on the French symphonic repertoire around 1900, followed by his habilitation at the University of Mainz with a study on Sebastian Virdung and instrumental music between the late Middle Ages and early modern times in 2018. In 2012 he received an award from the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz. Since 2018, he leads the research project “Perceptions and Effects of Opera, Berlin 1815–1828”. From 2019 to 2020, he was Visiting Professor for musicology at the University of Heidelberg. His publications deal with Music History from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to opera and music theatre in the 18th–20th centuries, as well as orchestral music and the history of musical institutions in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Hole Rößler
is Deputy Head of the Research Department of the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel. He studied modern German literature, philosophy and theatre studies in Munich and Berlin. In 2008 he received his doctorate with a thesis on evidence practices in early modern science. From 2007 to 2013 he worked as assistant in a research project on Athanasius Kircher at the University of Lucerne. From 2014 to 2017 he was a research assistant in the project “Bildpolitik. Das Autorenporträt als ikonische Autorisierung” of the Marbach-Weimar-Wolfenbüttel Research Association.
Delphine Schreuder
has a degree in Art History from the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) where she is currently a teaching assistant. Member of the GEMCA – Group for Early Modern Cultural Analysis, she is writing a Ph.D. thesis on the frontispieces of early modern fortification treatises under the supervision of Ralph Dekoninck and Philippe Bragard. She also continues her research on 17th-century topographical battle painting initiated in her master thesis.
Alice Zamboni
is Ph.D. candidate at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Her dissertation explores the role played by illustrated anatomy books in the production and dissemination of knowledge about the body among 17th-century Dutch artists and physicians.
Cornel Zwierlein
PD Dr. habil. Cornel Zwierlein took his Ph.D. (2003) at the University of Munich (LMU) and the CESR Tours, and is currently on a Heisenberg-Stelle at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, FU Berlin. Before, he was Professor of history in 2008–2017. He holds the Habilitation (Privatdozent) at RUB Bochum (2011/3), was Fellow at the History Department, Harvard University 2013–2015, Associate there 2016, 2018, CRASSH Cambridge 2014, Max-Weber-Kolleg Erfurt 2017/18. His monographs include: Discorso and Lex Dei (French Wars of Religion, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht: 2006), The Political Thought of the French League and Rome, 1585–1589 (Droz: 2016) and Imperial Unknowns. The French and the British in the Mediterranean, 1650–1750 (Cambridge UP, 2016/8), Politische Theorie und Herrschaft in der Frühen Neuzeit, (UTB 5439: 2020); Prometheus Tamed. Fire, Security and Modernities, 1400–1900 (Brill: 2021).