Dr. Marieke von Bernstorff
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).