Dr. Marieke von Bernstorff

Head of Publications & Public Relations

Main Focus

  • Italian and Spanish art of the 16th–17th century
  • Art theory in the 16th–17th century
  • Social history of the artist and of dilettantism

Research Project

Übersetzung und Kommentar der Lebensbeschreibung Domenico Zampieris (Domenichino) von Giovan Pietro Bellori

Curriculum Vitae

1993–1994 studium generale at the Leibniz Kolleg in Tübingen. 1994–2002 studies Medieval and Modern History, History of Art and Political Science in Bonn and Berlin. 1998–1999 works at the Photographic Collection of the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome. 2002 MA at the Freie Universität Berlin with a thesis on Sebastiano Ricci and the church of San Bernardino alle Ossa in Milan. 2003–2005 Ph.D. scholarship from the Gerda Henkel Foundation (Düsseldorf) with research periods in Berlin, Rome and Madrid. January 2009 Ph.D. at the Technische Universität Dresden. The doctoral thesis was published in 2010 under the title Agent und Maler als Akteure im Kunstbetrieb des frühen 17. Jahrhunderts. Giovan Battista Crescenzi und Bartolomeo Cavarozzi. From October 2005 to January 2011 assistant to Prof. Dr. Sybille Ebert-Schifferer, director at the Bibliotheca Hertziana. Since 2008 member of the DFG-funded research group working on an annotated bilingual edition of Giovan Pietro Bellori's Le vite de' pittori scultori ed architetti moderni (Rome, 1672) under the aegis of Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Oy-Marra, Institute Art History at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz (translation of the Life of Domenichino and critical analysis). Since 2011 Marieke von Bernstorff is a member of the academic staff of the Bibliotheca Hertziana (Publications/PR).

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