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Associate Professor Andrea Bubenik
Associate Professor

Andrea Bubenik

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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

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Queen's University

Research interests

  • Nothern Renaissance

  • Histories of printmaking

  • links between art and science c.1400-1800

  • early modern art theory

  • court cultures

  • Renaissance and Baroque art

  • practices of display and collecting

  • reception theory

  • 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

Search Professor Andrea Bubenik’s works on UQ eSpace

42 works between 2002 and 2024

1 - 20 of 42 works

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

Display

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

The persistence of melancholia in arts and culture

Featured

2017

Book

Ecstasy: Baroque and Beyond

Andrea Bubenik ed. (2017). Ecstasy: Baroque and Beyond. Brisbane, QLD Australia: UQ Art Museum.

Ecstasy: Baroque and Beyond

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.

Perspectives on the art of Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-77)

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.

Reframing Albrecht Dürer: The Appropriation of Art, 1528-1700

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

Art and science in the Renaissance: animals and plants: introduction

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

Giants as primordial ancestors in sixteenth-century art and poetry

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

Art, ethics, and the relativism of distance

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.

Dürer’s Rhinoceros: art, science, and the Northern Renaissance

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.

An emotional object: trauma and healing for Dürer’s Feast of the Rosegarlands, 1873-1928

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.

Health home hope: a photographic exhibition on housing and health

2023

Other Outputs

The subversive icons of Ryan Presley

Bubenik, Andrea (2023). The subversive icons of Ryan Presley. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Gertrude Contemporary.

The subversive icons of Ryan Presley

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

The Nibelungenlied: with the Klage

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.

The radical ecologies of eX de Medici

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

Review: Objects in frames: displaying foreign collectibles in early Modern China and Europe by Anna Grasskamp

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

Book review: The Life of Giovanni Morelli in Risorgimento Italy

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

Review of From Hus to Luther: visual culture in the Bohemian Reformation (1380–1620) ed. by Kateřina Horníčková, and Michal Šroněk

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

Book review: Love: Art of Emotion 1400–1800 ed. by Angela Hesson, Charles Zika and Matthew Martin

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.

Introduction: the persistence of melancholia in arts and culture

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

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

Funding

Past funding

  • 2011 - 2012
    Paragons of art and science: The reception of Leonardo da Vinci and Albrecht Durer
    UQ Early Career Researcher
    Open grant
  • 2009 - 2010
    Dialogues between Art and Science in Early Modern Courts
    UQ New Staff Research Start-Up Fund
    Open grant

Supervision

Availability

Associate Professor Andrea Bubenik is:
Available for supervision

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Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    The World Landscapes of Joachm Patinir

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Robert Brennan

  • Doctor Philosophy

    The Emperor's New Clothes: The Printed Revolution of Maximilian I (1494-1519)

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Amelia Barikin

  • Doctor Philosophy

    The art and literature of Chinese painter-critics through the lens of neuroscience

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Paolo Magagnoli

  • Doctor Philosophy

    An Archival Aesthetic in Contemporary Art

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Sally Butler

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Situating architecture within aesthetics

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Susan Holden, Professor John Macarthur

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Shifting priorities in representations of female musicians in Renaissance art

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Denis Collins

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Curating, Sex Work and Social Reproduction

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Paolo Magagnoli

Completed supervision

Media

Enquiries

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  • Baroque Art
  • Renaissance Art

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