Main Focus
- Representation of Saints in Rome and Southern Italy (12th–15th century)
- Materiality and aesthetics of Medieval Reliquaries
- Cultural transfer as translation
- Reception of Early Netherlandish painting in the Mediterranean
- Function and aesthetics of textile images in the Late Middle Ages
Research Project
Topographie, Zeitlichkeit und Materialität der Heiligenverehrung in Süditalien (13.-14. Jahrhundert)
Curriculum Vitae
Adrian Bremenkamp studied art history, philosophy and archaeology in Berlin
and Paris, and earned his M.A. degree with a work on the iconography and
functionality of the Massacre of the Innocents in fifteenth-century Sienese
altarpieces. Between 2008 and 2010 he has assisted to the realization of the
exhibition project fake or feint, sponsored by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds
of Berlin. From 2012 to 2016, Adrian Bremenkamp was a doctoral candidate at
TOPOI excellence cluster in Berlin. His phd-thesis – supervised by Tanja
Michalsky and Wolf-Dietrich Löhr and defended at the Universität der Künste Berlin
in 2017 – was published in 2021 under the title ars nova translata. Altniederländische
Malerei in Neapel und Aragon. In 2017 he took up a post-doctoral position
at the Bibliotheca Hertziana, and since 2018 he has been a research assistant
in Department III. He has taken
teaching appointments at the Berlin University of the Arts, Heinrich Heine
University in Düsseldorf, the University of Leipzig, and Dartmouth College.