Karin Leonhard
Research Scholar
Dr.
Residence: October 1, 2011 - September 30, 2014
Karin Leonhard, art historian. Doctoral thesis “Zur Interieurmalerei Jan Vermeers“ ("The painted room. Jan Vermeer’s interior paintings”); since 2004 assistant professor at the institute for art history, KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany; Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (Max-Planck-Institute); at present Senior Research Fellow in the Max Planck Research Group "Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe", with a project on seventeenth-century colour theory and practice.
Major interests: Theories on space and perception in the Early Modern Period; history of science and history of art in seventeenth-century Netherlands and Britain; history and methods of art history/Bildwissenschaften; Baroque and Postmodernism
Karin Leonhard. "Painted Poison. Venomous Beasts, Herbs, Gems, and Baroque Colour Theory. " Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboeck (NKJ) (2011)
Karin Leonhard. "Ornament und Zeitlichkeit: Kartusche – Rocaille – Arabeske." In: Bild und Zeit. Temporalität in Kunst und Kunsttheorie seit 1800, eds.: Thomas Kisser. München, Paderborn: Fink, 2011.
Karin Leonhard. "Lister’s Muscheln und Hollar’s Shells: Das Ashmolean Museum in Oxford: Universitaet, Museum und Oeffentlichkeit im 17. Jahrhundert." In: Museum, Bibliothek, Stadtraum: Kontingenz und Kontrolle in raeumlichen Wissensordnungen 1600-1800, eds.: Robert Felfe and Kirsten Wagner. Münster: LIT Verlag, 2010.
Silke Horstkotte, Karin Leonhard (Eds.). Seeing Perception. Image – Body- Text. Cambridge: CSP , 2007.
Karin Leonhard. "Shell collecting. On 17th Century Conchology, Curiosity Cabinets and Stillife Painting. " Early modern zoology: the construction of animals in science, literature and the visual arts Intersections 7 (2007)
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