Conferenciantes

Camilla Cavicchi

Camilla Cavicchi is a musicologist associated with the Centre d'études supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours (France). In 2006, she was awarded a doctorate in musicology and musical heritage by the Università di Bologna, with a thesis on the French composer Maistre Jhan (1512–1538). In 2007 she began work on her CNRS post-doctorate on Renaissance singers prosopography at the Centre d'études supérieures de la Renaissance. She taught organology at the Università di Bologna and history of music at the Université de Montpellier. She takes a multidisciplinary approach to researching the history of music in Renaissance Europe and the Mediterranean; drawing from archives, prosopography, music iconography, organology and ethnomusicology, and focussing on three major fields: court music, regional and popular traditions. She has published on the subjects of musical iconography, organology, the history of musical institutions in the Renaissance, and orally transmitted musical repertoires, especially those of barbers and cantastorie (singers of tales).

Krista de Jonge

de Jonge Trained in civil engineering/architecture at the University of Leuven and in architectural history at the Centre d'Études supérieures de la Renaissance in Tours, France. Since 2001 she is Full Professor of History of Architecture at the Department of Architecture of the University of Leuven; she currently also serves as its Chair.
She is an elected member of the Academia Europaea, the Royal Flemish Academy for Science and the Arts, the Royal Academy of Archaeology of Belgium, and the National Committee for the History of Science and Logic of Belgium; moreover, she is an advisor to the Academia Belgica in Rome and to the Centre d'Études supérieures de la Renaissance. She is a former advisor, member or fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders and the Fondation de la Recherche Scientifique, Belgium, the Royal Institute of Heritage, Brussels, the Centre André Chastel, INHA, Paris, and the Royal Commission of Monuments and Sites in the Brussels Capital Region.
She directed the European Science Foundation Research Networking Program ‘PALATIUM. Court residences as places of exchange in late medieval and early modern Europe (1400-1700)', as well as several nationally funded programs on the architectural history of the Low Countries and on history of engineering in Belgium. She also is an advisor to the programs ‘All His Worldly Possessions: The Inventory of the 5th Duque of Bragança, Teodósio I' in Lisbon, ‘Residenzstädte im alten Reich (1300-1800)' of the Residenzen-Kommission at the Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Germany, ‘Baroque Ceiling Paintings' of the Bayerische Akademie in Munich, and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences Conference Network ‘The Quest for an Appropriate Past. Literature, Architecture, Art and the Creation of National Identities in Early Modern Europe (c. 1400–1700)'.
Her personal research concerns early modern architecture in the Low Countries in its relationship to France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Denmark and Portugal, with a particular focus on the Burgundian and Habsburg court residences in the Low Countries and on the genesis of Renaissance architecture in Flanders.
Recent publications on court architecture include:

"Espacio Ceremonial. Intercambios en la arquitectura palaciega entre los Países Bajos borgoñones y España en la Alta Edad Moderna (1520-1620)", in: B. J. García García, K. De Jonge, A. Esteban Estríngana (eds.), El legado de Borgoña. Fiesta y Ceremonia cortesana en la Europa de los Austrias, Madrid: Marcial Pons, 2010, p. 61-90.
"Galleries at the Burgundian-Habsburg Court from the Low Countries to Spain 1430–1600", in: C. Strunck, E. Kieven (eds.), Europäische Galeriebauten. Galleries in a Comparative European Perspective (1400–1800), Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2010, p. 73-88.
"A Netherlandish Model? Reframing the Danish Royal Residences in a European Perspective", in: M. Anderson, B. Bøggild Johannsen, H. Johannsen (eds.), Reframing the Danish Renaissance. Problems and Prospects in a European Perspective (Publications from the National Museum. Studies in Archaeology & History, 16), Copenhagen: National Museum of Denmark, 2011, p. 219-233.
"Vivre noblement. Les logis des hommes et des femmes dans les résidences de la haute noblesse habsbourgeoise des anciens Pays-Bas (1500-1550)", in: M. Chatenet, K. De Jonge (eds.), Le prince, la princesse et leur logis. Manières d'habiter dans l'élite aristocratique européenne (1400-1700) (De Architectura), Paris : Picard, 2014, p. 105-124.

Dagmar Eichberger

Dagmar Eichberger is apl. Professor of Art History at the University of Heidelberg. Her first research project focused on Jan van Eyck's early career as a court artist (Jan van Eyck als Erzähler. Frühe Tafelbilder im Umkreis der New Yorker Doppeltafel, with Hans Belting and Bildkonzeption und Weltdeutung im New Yorker Diptychon des Jan van Eyck, 1987). Teaching appointments in Australia, Germany and France sharpened her profile as a specialist in Northern Renaissance Art. From 2011 to 2016, she held a teaching position at the University of Trier and worked as scientific coordinator for the ERC artifex project. Her habilitation on Margaret of Austria as collector and patron of the arts was published in 2002 (Leben mit Kunst – Wirken durch Kunst). It was followed by an international exhibition that was accompanied by an edited handbook (Women of Distinction. Margaret of York and Margaret of Austria, 2005). The Mechelen Conference proceedings were published under the title: Femmes à la Cour de Bourgogne. Présence et influence (with A.-M. Legaré). She joined two J. P. Getty collaborative research projects that dealt with Mencia de Mendoza and with early Habsburg collections (Fernando Checa, ed., The Inventories of Charles V and the Imperial family, 3 vols.).
In 2015, a collection of essays was published with co-editor Jennifer Spinks (Religion, the Supernatural and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe: An Album Amicorum for Charles Zika); another edited volume is in print: The artist between court and city (1300-1600). L'artiste entre la cour et la ville. Der Künstler zwischen Hof und Stadt, with Philippe Lorentz). Her strong interest in the Old Testament and in the concept of typological thinking finds its expression in another volume of essays, edited with Shelley Perlove (Visual Typology in early Modern Europe. Continuity and Expansion, due 2017).

Miguel Falomir Faus

Miguel Angel Falomir Miguel Falomir (born Valencia, 1966) has a PhD in Art History and is a professor in that subject at the University of Valencia. He has been the recipient of a Fulbright post-doctoral grant from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University (1994-195) Since 1997 he has been Head of the Department of Italian and French Renaissance Painting (up to 1700) at the Prado where he has curated numerous exhibitions including The Bassanos in Golden Age Spain (2001); Titian (2003); Tintoretto (2007); The Renaissance Portrait (2008); Titian. Saint John the Baptist (2012); The Furies, political allegory and artistic challenge (2014); and, most recently, Danaë and Venus and Adonis. Titian's early "poesie" for Philip II (2014). During this period Dr Falomir has also been involved in the restoration of important works by Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese and Raphael.

International recognition within his field came with his appointment between 2008 and 2010 as Andrew Mellon Professor at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. He is currently completing the catalogue raisonné of the works by Titian in the Prado.
The post of Deputy Director for Collections and Research at the Prado involves heading the Museum's curatorial departments, which are located in its Research Centre in the Casón del Buen Retiro, in addition to supervising the restoration programme of the collections.
Miguel Falomir specialises in Spanish and Italian Renaissance painting, to which he has devoted various books and more than fifty articles published in Europe and the USA :

"Rafael, los años finales", Ars magazine: revista de arte y coleccionismo, 15, 2012, págs. 20-32.
"Titian, Jacopo Bassano and the "Purification of the temple"", Artibus et historiae: and art anthology, 67, 2013 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Art in Sixteenth-Century Venice : context, practices, developments. Conference in honour of Peter Humfrey), págs. 275-284
"Christ Mocked" a Late "Invenzione" by Titian, Artibus et historiae: and art anthology, 55, 2007, (Ejemplar dedicado a: In This Issue Special Articles in Memory of William R. Rearick (1930-2004). Part 1), págs. 53-61
M. Falomir y P. Joannides, "Titan´s Danae": the debates continues", Burlington magazine, Vol. 158, Nº 1359, 2016, pigs. 415-419.

He is a member of the Comitato Scientifico of the Fondazione Tiziano in Pieve di Cadore (Italy) and is on the editorial board of various specialist publications in Spain and Italy. He has been guest professor at the universities of Udine (Italy) and UCLA (USA).

Annemarie Jordan Gschwend

A Research Scholar with the Centro de História d'Aquém e d'Além-Mar (CHAM) in Lisbon and Switzerland since 2010, she obtained her Ph.D in 1994 from Brown University, writing a dissertation on the court, household and collection of Catherine of Austria, queen of Portugal (1507-1578). Her areas of specialization include patronage, collecting, menageries and Kunstkammers at the Renaissance courts in Austria, the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal. In recent years, this research has focused on the court culture, patronage and collections of Habsburg women: in particular the sisters, wives and aunts of the rulers: Philip II of Spain, and the Emperors Charles V and Maximilian II. A further specialization focuses on the cultural and artistic transfer between Africa, Asia, Brazil and the Renaissance Habsburg courts.

She is author of numerous publications (articles, exhibition catalogue essays and contributions in books), including her own books: Retrato de Corte em Portugal. O legado de António Moro (1552-1572), (Lisbon, 1994), The Story of Süleyman. Celebrity Elephants and other Exotica in Renaissance Portugal (Zurich, 2010), and a recent biography: Catarina de Áustria. A rainha colecionadora, (Lisbon, 2012). From 2008 to 2013 she was principal coordinator of the Getty Foundation funded research project on Hans Khevenhüller, Diplomat and Artistic Agent at the Court of Philip II of Spain.

Dr Jordan was decorated in 2011 by the Portuguese government with the Order of Henry the Navigator for guest curating the international exhibition: Ivories of Ceylon. Luxury Goods of the Renaissance which venued in 2010 at the Museum Rietberg in Zurich. This was the first exhibit on Portugal during the Age of Discovery to be shown in Switzerland. She presently guest curated an exhibition on Habsburg pets, wild animals and menageries (Echt Tierisch! Die menagerie des Fürsten), Schloss Ambras, Innsbruck, which venues June 18, 2015, and is co-editor (with Kate Lowe) of the recent book, The Global City. On the streets of Renaissance Lisbon, London (Paul Holberton, October 2015).

Mía Rodríguez-Salgado

Rodríguez-Salgado

M. J. Rodríguez-Salgado did her undergraduate studies in history at the University of Durham, and went on to obtain a PhD at Hull University. She first Lectureship in History was at the University of St Andrews in Scotland in 1979, and she went on to teach at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne before taking up a post as Lecturer in the Department of International History at the London School of Economics in 1985. She was promoted to a Chair of International History in 1996. She devised the Gran Armada exhibition which opened at the National Maritime Museum in 1988 and was adviser to other exhibitions. She has contributed to many television and radio documentaries and discussions. Her two chief areas of research and many of her publications have been dedicated to International Politics and to Court Studies in the reigns of Charles V and Philip II.
Her many publications include:

The Changing Face of Empire: Charles V, Philip II and Habsburg Authority 1551-1559 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge etc., 1988) On-line reprint from 2008.
Spanish edition: Un Imperio en Transición. Carlos V, Felipe II y su mundo (Editorial Crítica, Barcelona, 1992)
Italian edition: Metamorfosi di un Impero. La Politica Asburgica da Carlo V a Filippo II (1551-1559) (Vita e Pensiero, Milan, 1994)
Armada. The Official Catalogue of the National Maritime Museum Exhibition (With contributions from the staff of the National Maritime Museum; Penguin Books, 1988)
Edited with Dr. Simon Adams, England, Spain and the Gran Armada, 1585-1604. Essays from the Anglo-Spanish Conferences, London and Madrid 1988 (John Donald, Edinburgh, 1991)
Felipe II. El «Paladín de la Cristiandad» y la Paz con el Turco. (Colección «Síntesis» XI. Secretariado de Publicaciones, Universidad de Valladolid, Salamanca, 2004)
'The Court of Philip II of Spain' in R. Asch and A.M. Birke (Eds), Princes, Patronage and the Nobility. The Court at the Beginning of the Modern Age c.1450-1650 (The German Historical Institute, London, and Oxford University Press, 1991) pp.205-244
'Honour and profit at the court of Philip II of Spain' in M. Aymard & M. Romani (eds) La Cour comme Institution Economique. (Éditions de la Maison Des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, 1998) pp.67-86.
'Charles V and the dynasty', in H. Soly (ed.) Charles V. 1500-1558. pp.27-111
(English edition, Mercatorfonds, Antwerp, 1999)
Also in French and Dutch editions, 1999
Spanish and German editions 2000.
'King, Bishop, Pawn? Philip II and Granvelle in the 1550s and 1560s', in: Krista De Jonge & Gustaaf Janssens (éds), Les Granvelle et les Anciens Pays-Bas (Leuven, 2000) pp.105-134.
‘"Una Perfecta Princesa" Casa y vida de la reina Isabel de Valois (1559-1568). Primera Parte.', in: C. Gómez-Centurión Jimenez (ed.), Monarquía y Corte en la España Moderna, Monografías de Cuadernos de Historia Moderna, Anejo II, (Madrid, 2003), pp.39-96. Also in:
http://www.ucm.es/BUCM/revistas/ghi/02144018/articulos/CHMO0303220039A.PDF
‘"Una Perfecta Princesa" Casa y vida de la reina Isabel de Valois (1559-1568). Segunda Parte.', in Cuadernos de Historia Moderna, vol.28 (Madrid, 2003) pp.71-98. Also in:
http://www.ucm.es/BUCM/revistas/ghi/02144018/articulos/CHMO0303120071A.PDF