Isabella Augart
Dr. des. Isabella Augart
Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
20146 Hamburg
Room: 208 (Main Building)
Phone: +49 40 42838 2542
Fax: +49 40 42838 8145
E-Mail: isabella.augart"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Research project
The research within the “natura - materia – artificio” project, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Society), centres on the imitation and fiction of natural materials like stone in Early Modern painting and art theory. This study will focus on exploring the transition of natural materials into artwork which goes beyond a mere mimetic representation. The objective is to gain a thorough understanding of these mechanisms of stone fictionalizations in Italian Renaissance art. The study on the Bolognese painter Amico Aspertini (1474–1552) brings together lines of enquiry on the semantics of stone, visual perceptions of nature and antiquity, the ways materiality and mediality were conceived, and the relation of temporality and materiality.
Vita
Isabella Augart is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in History of Art at the University of Hamburg. She received a Masters degree from the University of Oxford and a Doctorate (Dr.phil. 2014) from the Free University of Berlin, Cluster “Languages of Emotion”. The doctoral thesis concerned itself with altarpieces having embedded miraculous images in Early Modern Italy ("Rahmenbilder. Altarbilder mit eingebettetem Gnadenbild im frühneuzeitlichen Italien"). She has previously held fellowships at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut (2012–2013) and the Bavarian Office for the Preservation of Historical Monuments in Munich (2014).