Marisa Mandabach

Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1

20146 Hamburg
Room: 116 (Main Building)
Tel.: +49 40 42838 8134
E-Mail: marisa.mandabach"AT"uni-hamburg.de

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Research project

Marisa Mandabach is a PhD candidate at Harvard University and works on painting in Early Modern Antwerp. Her dissertation project focuses on the relationship between the painterly and the grotesque in the art of Peter Paul Rubens, particularly the role of monstrous, ‘medusan’ hybrids in his works. Her current research interests thus include modulations of the Medusa between art theory and the natural sciences, the grotesque and the ‘image made by chance’ in the history of the imagination, materials and techniques of oil painting and the rise of the oil sketch.

Vita

BA in English and Art History, Sarah Lawrence College, 2000–2004; Stanley and Evelyn Lipkin Prize in the Humanities, 2004. MA on “Concepts of the Artist in Early Modern Visual Culture,” Courtauld Institute of Art, 2006–2007. PhD in the History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University, 2008—. Prints Intern, Harvard Art Museums, May–November 2012. Agnes Mongan Curatorial Intern, Harvard Art Museums, September 2012–January 2013. Teaching Fellow for “Leonardo da Vinci”, Harvard University, January–May 2013.

Relevant publications

Seven catalogue entries in: Susan Dackerman (ed.), Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, Cambridge and New Haven, 2011.

“Holy Shit: Bosch’s Bluebird and the Juncture of the Scatological and the Eschatological in Late Medieval Art,” in Marginalia: Journal of the Medieval Reading Group at Cambridge, Vol. 11, October 2010, 28–49.