Nora Guggenbühler, M.A.

Nora Guggenbühler is a PhD candidate in Art History at the University of Zurich. Her research focuses on the circulation of copies of miraculous images of the Virgin Mary across the Spanish Empire during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. From March 2020 to February 2024, she held a research grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) for her dissertation project titled Miraculous Image Motion: Multiplication and Dissemination of the Virgin Mary throughout the Hispanic World. From October 2021 to September 2022, she was a visiting scholar at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid with Prof. Dr. Luisa Elena Alcalá. Previously, she spent two years as a Predoctoral Fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome (2020-2022) and three months as a resident at the Istituto Svizzero in Palermo (fall 2020).