Susan Maxwell

Visiting Scholar

Ph.D. Associate Professor University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

Funded by the DAAD

Residence: March 1–May 31, 2013

Profile

Susan Maxwell works on issues of art, politics and the transmission of artistic knowledge in the late sixteenth/early seventeenth century. She holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in art history from the University of Virginia. Her current project looks at the political implications of four hunting paintings commissioned from Peter Paul Rubens by Prince Elector Maximilian I of Bavaria, as well as their place in Rubens' theories on art and artistic training and their implications for the study of natural history by Rubens and others in his circle.