Overview
Background
Andrea Bubenik is an expert in Renaissance and Baroque Art, and the continued reception of early modern visual culture. She is an Associate Professor in Art History in the School of Communication and Arts, and was the Director of the UQ Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions between 2019-2022. Her research interests include early modern printmaking, links between art and science, court cultures and collecting, and histories of reception for both iconic and lesser known works of art.
Her books include The Persistence of Melancholia in Art and Culture (edited, 2019), Perspectives on the Art of Wenceslaus Hollar (co-edited with Anne Thackray, 2016), and Reframing Albrecht Dürer: The Appropriation of Art, 1528-1700 (2013), which was awarded the AAANZ best book prize (2014). Andrea’s forthcoming monograph, Living Pictures: The Renaissance Artist-Scientist explores the afterlives of the animal, plant, and rock studies by Albrecht Dürer and Leonardo da Vinci, and is supported by a grant from AIAH/AAANZ.
Andrea's international profile includes visiting fellowships at the Warburg Institute in London, the Central Institute of Art History (Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte) in Munich, the Institute of Art History (Ustav Dějin Umění) in Prague, and the Huntington Library in LA. Andrea is a strong advocate for collaboration with arts and culture institutions and the translation of academic research into more public platforms. She curated two major exhibitions at the UQ Art Museum: Ecstasy: Baroque and Beyond (2017), and Five Centuries of Melancholia (2014), both accompanied by exhibition catalogues. She also delivers an annual public art history course at QAGOMA (Queensland Gallery of Art), and has given public lectures at galleries in Australia, Canada, the Czech Republic, Germany, and the UK.
As an experienced teacher and supervisor, with more than twenty successful supervisions at the Honours, MPhil and PhD levels, Andrea is especially proud of her students’ successes. She supervises local, national, and international internship placements in art galleries and museums, and developed an undergraduate study abroad option for UQ students, ‘Art and Architecture in Venice’ which takes place on site in Venice, Italy. She welcomes expressions of interest from prospective HDR students.
Availability
- Associate Professor Andrea Bubenik is:
- Available for supervision
- Media expert
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, Queen's University
Research interests
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Nothern Renaissance
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Histories of printmaking
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links between art and science c.1400-1800
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early modern art theory
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court cultures
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Renaissance and Baroque art
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practices of display and collecting
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reception theory
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Albrecht Dürer and his followers
Research impacts
Research Impacts
Andrea is regularly invited to speak about her research at art galleries and cultural institutions both national and international. She has contributed to The Conversation, and has also given radio interviews on the ABC programs Historyonics, Radio National Books and Arts Daily, and Afternoons with Jacinta Parsons. Here is a selection of Andrea’s public engagement activities that are available online:
The Weird and the Eerie, and in conversation with artist Jenny Watson, Guest Speaker at QAGOMA,19/11/22
Remake/Remodel, and in conversation with artist Ryan Presley, Guest Speaker at QAGOMA,19/11/22
Serious Jokes, and in conversation with artist Natalya Hughes, Guest Speaker at QAGOMA,12/11/22
Human/Non-Human, European Masterpieces from the MET, and in conversation with Marian Drew, Guest Speaker at QAGOMA, 11/9/21
Power of Place, European Masterpieces from the MET, and in conversation with artist Christopher Bassi, Guest Speaker at QAGOMA, 18/9/21
From Flesh to Fashion, European Masterpieces from the MET, and in conversation with artist Michael Zavros, Guest Speaker at QAGOMA, 4/9/21
Plague and Death in the Art of Albrecht Dürer, Guest speaker at QAGOMA, 28/10/2020
Recreating masterpieces at home? People have been doing it for centuries, The Conversation, 23/4/2020
Albrecht Dürer's Engraving Melencolia I is 500 Years Old, Books and Arts Daily, ABC radio, August 28, 2014
Historyonics: The art of Melancholy, Historyonics, ABC radio, August 13, 2014.
Works
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Featured
2022
Book Chapter
Display
Bubenik, Andrea (2022). Display. Early modern court culture. (pp. 325-342) edited by Erin Griffey. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429277986-26
Featured
2019
Book
The persistence of melancholia in arts and culture
Andrea Bubenik ed. (2019). The persistence of melancholia in arts and culture. New York, NY, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429468469
Featured
2017
Book
Ecstasy: Baroque and Beyond
Andrea Bubenik ed. (2017). Ecstasy: Baroque and Beyond. Brisbane, QLD Australia: UQ Art Museum.
Featured
2016
Book
Perspectives on the art of Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-77)
A. Bubenik and A. Thackray eds. (2016). Perspectives on the art of Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-77). Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols.
Featured
2013
Book
Reframing Albrecht Dürer: The Appropriation of Art, 1528-1700
Bubenik, Andrea (2013). Reframing Albrecht Dürer: The Appropriation of Art, 1528-1700. Surrey, United Kingdom: Ashgate.
2024
Journal Article
Art and science in the Renaissance: animals and plants: introduction
Bubenik, Andrea (2024). Art and science in the Renaissance: animals and plants: introduction. Parergon, 41 (1), 95-100. doi: 10.1353/pgn.2024.a935335
2024
Book Chapter
Giants as primordial ancestors in sixteenth-century art and poetry
Bubenik, Andrea (2024). Giants as primordial ancestors in sixteenth-century art and poetry. Giants and dwarfs in European art and culture, ca. 1350-1750. (pp. 125-154) edited by Robin O’Bryan and Felicia Else. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press. doi: 10.2307/jj.12381767.8
2024
Journal Article
Art, ethics, and the relativism of distance
Nannicelli, Ted and Bubenik, Andrea (2024). Art, ethics, and the relativism of distance. British Journal of Aesthetics, 64 (3) ayad045, 1-20. doi: 10.1093/aesthj/ayad045
2024
Journal Article
Dürer’s Rhinoceros: art, science, and the Northern Renaissance
Bubenik, Andrea (2024). Dürer’s Rhinoceros: art, science, and the Northern Renaissance. Smarthistory.
2023
Journal Article
An emotional object: trauma and healing for Dürer’s Feast of the Rosegarlands, 1873-1928
Bubenik, Andrea (2023). An emotional object: trauma and healing for Dürer’s Feast of the Rosegarlands, 1873-1928. Journal of The Northern Renaissance.
2023
Other Outputs
Health home hope: a photographic exhibition on housing and health
Plage, Stefanie, Perrier, Robert, Bubenik, Andrea, Baker, Kirsten, Stambe, Rose-Marie, Kuskoff, Ella and Parsell, Cameron (2023). Health home hope: a photographic exhibition on housing and health. West End, Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland.
2023
Other Outputs
The subversive icons of Ryan Presley
Bubenik, Andrea (2023). The subversive icons of Ryan Presley. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Gertrude Contemporary.
2023
Journal Article
The Nibelungenlied: with the Klage
Bubenik, Andrea and Whobrey, William (2023). The Nibelungenlied: with the Klage. Parergon, 40 (1). doi: 10.1353/pgn.2023.a905440
2023
Book Chapter
The radical ecologies of eX de Medici
Bubenik, Andrea (2023). The radical ecologies of eX de Medici. eX de Medici: beautiful wickedness. (pp. 63-74) Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Thames and Hudson Australia.
2022
Journal Article
Review: Objects in frames: displaying foreign collectibles in early Modern China and Europe by Anna Grasskamp
Bubenik, Andrea (2022). Review: Objects in frames: displaying foreign collectibles in early Modern China and Europe by Anna Grasskamp. Parergon, 39 (1), 281-281. doi: 10.1353/pgn.2022.0048
2021
Journal Article
Book review: The Life of Giovanni Morelli in Risorgimento Italy
Bubenik, Andrea (2021). Book review: The Life of Giovanni Morelli in Risorgimento Italy. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 21 (1), 165-168. doi: 10.1080/14434318.2021.1934786
2020
Journal Article
Review of From Hus to Luther: visual culture in the Bohemian Reformation (1380–1620) ed. by Kateřina Horníčková, and Michal Šroněk
Bubenik, Andrea (2020). Review of From Hus to Luther: visual culture in the Bohemian Reformation (1380–1620) ed. by Kateřina Horníčková, and Michal Šroněk. Parergon, 37 (1), 303-303. doi: 10.1353/pgn.2020.0054
2020
Journal Article
Book review: Love: Art of Emotion 1400–1800 ed. by Angela Hesson, Charles Zika and Matthew Martin
Bubenik, Andrea (2020). Book review: Love: Art of Emotion 1400–1800 ed. by Angela Hesson, Charles Zika and Matthew Martin. Parergon, 37 (2), 213-215. doi: 10.1353/pgn.2020.0092
2019
Book Chapter
Introduction: the persistence of melancholia in arts and culture
Bubenik, Andrea (2019). Introduction: the persistence of melancholia in arts and culture. The persistence of melancholia in arts and culture. (pp. 1-12) New York, NY, United States: Routledge.
2019
Journal Article
Review of Hösle, Vittorio, Vico's New Science of the Intersubjective World, trans. and ed. Francis R. Hittinger IV, University of Notre Dame Press, 2016
Bubenik, Andrea (2019). Review of Hösle, Vittorio, Vico's New Science of the Intersubjective World, trans. and ed. Francis R. Hittinger IV, University of Notre Dame Press, 2016. Parergon, 36 (2), 257-259. doi: 10.1353/pgn.2019.0108
Funding
Past funding
Supervision
Availability
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
The World Landscapes of Joachm Patinir
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Robert Brennan
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Doctor Philosophy
The Emperor's New Clothes: The Printed Revolution of Maximilian I (1494-1519)
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Amelia Barikin
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Doctor Philosophy
The art and literature of Chinese painter-critics through the lens of neuroscience
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Paolo Magagnoli
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Doctor Philosophy
An Archival Aesthetic in Contemporary Art
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Sally Butler
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Doctor Philosophy
Situating architecture within aesthetics
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Susan Holden, Professor John Macarthur
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Doctor Philosophy
Shifting priorities in representations of female musicians in Renaissance art
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Denis Collins
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Doctor Philosophy
Curating, Sex Work and Social Reproduction
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Paolo Magagnoli
Completed supervision
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
Cutting Emotions: Images of Holy Wounds in Emotional Communities of Germany, France and the Low Countries (1400-1550)
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Karin Sellberg
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2022
Master Philosophy
Appropriations of Renaissance and Baroque Art in Contemporary Australia
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Amelia Barikin
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
Picturing the Franco-Ottoman Alliance in the Sixteenth Century
Principal Advisor
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2016
Master Philosophy
(Extra)Ordinary Lives: Luis Paret y Alcázar, costumbrismo, and historical myth-making
Principal Advisor
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2019
Master Philosophy
Towards A Nuclear Aesthetics: Maralinga and the Art of Jonathan Kumintjara Brown and Yhonnie Scarce
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Amelia Barikin
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2014
Doctor Philosophy
Radical Restructuring: Autonomies in Italian Architecture & Design, 1968-73
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor John Macarthur, Dr Silvia Micheli
Media
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