Madeline Delbé
I am currently a doctoral student in Art History at the Universities of Bonn, Florence, and Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), where I am part of the international doctoral school «European Founding Myths in Literature, Art, and Music». My dissertation project, which I commenced in February 2019, focuses on the mobility of Flemish and Italian artists in the late 16th and early 17th century, scrutinising the cultural and artistic dynamics between Florence and Antwerp during this period.
I hold a BA in Art History and English Studies from the University of Trier, an MA in Art History from the University of Bonn, and a binational MA in Renaissance-Studies from the Universities of Bonn and Florence. While my BA thesis focussed on the self-representation of the artist in 15th-century Florence, my MA thesis analysed Peter Paul Rubens’s sojourns in Florence and the reception of Michelangelo’s ‘Night’ and ‘Leda with the Swan’ in Rubens’s oeuvre. Since 2015, I have been a project collaborator in the rare book section of the library of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (Max-Planck-Institute). I have been awarded, amongst others, fellowships and grants by the University of Bonn, the Franco-German University, the German Center for Art History - DFK Paris, and the Warburg Institute in London.
I am a board member of ANKK (Arbeitskreis für Niederländische Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte) and co-founder of DIN (Doktorand:innen Italien Netzwerk - Netzwerk Italienforschung), which aim at creating a network between doctoral students working on Netherlandish or, respectively, Italian topics, and seek to represent their interests in (mainly German, but also international) academia.
Dissertation: "Practices of Entanglement. Mediating Trade, Knowledge, and Art between Florence and Flanders in the Early Modern Era (c. 1545 – c. 1680)" [working title]
By identifying and connecting sites of artistic interrelations and mediation between artists, patrons, artistic centres, and mediators such as merchants or diplomats, my dissertation project analyses the cultural, mercantile, and artistic transfer between Florence and Antwerp in the late 16th and the 17th century. In doing so, it aims to investigate which kinds of transfer were conducted between these two metropolises in the Early Modern period and whether this can be defined as a distinctive phenomenon, transferable to parallel artistic, mercantile, and cultural dynamics in Europe at the time. Following an interdisciplinary approach – with an art historical perspective as its core discipline – it seeks to contribute a valuable study in the research field of short distance transcultural interactions in Early Modern Europe.
Supervisors: Prof. Birgit Ulrike Münch and Prof. Nils Büttner
I hold a BA in Art History and English Studies from the University of Trier, an MA in Art History from the University of Bonn, and a binational MA in Renaissance-Studies from the Universities of Bonn and Florence. While my BA thesis focussed on the self-representation of the artist in 15th-century Florence, my MA thesis analysed Peter Paul Rubens’s sojourns in Florence and the reception of Michelangelo’s ‘Night’ and ‘Leda with the Swan’ in Rubens’s oeuvre. Since 2015, I have been a project collaborator in the rare book section of the library of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (Max-Planck-Institute). I have been awarded, amongst others, fellowships and grants by the University of Bonn, the Franco-German University, the German Center for Art History - DFK Paris, and the Warburg Institute in London.
I am a board member of ANKK (Arbeitskreis für Niederländische Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte) and co-founder of DIN (Doktorand:innen Italien Netzwerk - Netzwerk Italienforschung), which aim at creating a network between doctoral students working on Netherlandish or, respectively, Italian topics, and seek to represent their interests in (mainly German, but also international) academia.
Dissertation: "Practices of Entanglement. Mediating Trade, Knowledge, and Art between Florence and Flanders in the Early Modern Era (c. 1545 – c. 1680)" [working title]
By identifying and connecting sites of artistic interrelations and mediation between artists, patrons, artistic centres, and mediators such as merchants or diplomats, my dissertation project analyses the cultural, mercantile, and artistic transfer between Florence and Antwerp in the late 16th and the 17th century. In doing so, it aims to investigate which kinds of transfer were conducted between these two metropolises in the Early Modern period and whether this can be defined as a distinctive phenomenon, transferable to parallel artistic, mercantile, and cultural dynamics in Europe at the time. Following an interdisciplinary approach – with an art historical perspective as its core discipline – it seeks to contribute a valuable study in the research field of short distance transcultural interactions in Early Modern Europe.
Supervisors: Prof. Birgit Ulrike Münch and Prof. Nils Büttner
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when he attended – in the retinue of his patron Vincenzo Gonzaga – the marriage of Maria de’ Medici, and in March 1603, while he was on his way to Spain for a diplomatic mission, again, in the name of the Mantuan Court. This paper aims at providing a holistic perspective on both Rubens’s stays in Florence and on the artworks he encountered and studied there. By doing so, it seeks to shed new light on his Florentine sojourns, arguing, moreover, that he visited the city primarily in the role of a diplomat rather than in that of an artist. Reverberations of Florentine art, however, can be found throughout his oeuvre, especially when referring to the works of art by his compatriot Giambologna, which had a crucial impact on Rubens’s multidimensional understanding and handling of figures.
Conference Presentations by Madeline Delbé
Reiseskizzen zwischen Italien und Flandern: die Zeichnungen flämischer Italienreisender und italienischer Reisender in die Südlichen Niederlande im Vergleich
Gründungsmythos. Zur Mobilität von Künstlern in der Frühen Neuzeit
Conferences and Sessions organised by Madeline Delbé
Die diesjährigen ANKK-Nachwuchs-Studientage finden vom 11.‒13. Mai in Antwerpen statt und werden in Kooperation mit dem Rubenianum ausgerichtet. Neben der Vorstellung der Work-in-Progress-Themen von insgesamt elf Teilnehmenden, sieht das Programm eine Einführung in Archivrecherche im FelixArchiefs, einen Paläografie-Workshop, eine Führung durch das Rubenianum sowie einen Besuch des kürzlich neueröffneten Königlichen Museums der Schönen Künste (KMSKA) vor.
when he attended – in the retinue of his patron Vincenzo Gonzaga – the marriage of Maria de’ Medici, and in March 1603, while he was on his way to Spain for a diplomatic mission, again, in the name of the Mantuan Court. This paper aims at providing a holistic perspective on both Rubens’s stays in Florence and on the artworks he encountered and studied there. By doing so, it seeks to shed new light on his Florentine sojourns, arguing, moreover, that he visited the city primarily in the role of a diplomat rather than in that of an artist. Reverberations of Florentine art, however, can be found throughout his oeuvre, especially when referring to the works of art by his compatriot Giambologna, which had a crucial impact on Rubens’s multidimensional understanding and handling of figures.
Reiseskizzen zwischen Italien und Flandern: die Zeichnungen flämischer Italienreisender und italienischer Reisender in die Südlichen Niederlande im Vergleich
Gründungsmythos. Zur Mobilität von Künstlern in der Frühen Neuzeit
Die diesjährigen ANKK-Nachwuchs-Studientage finden vom 11.‒13. Mai in Antwerpen statt und werden in Kooperation mit dem Rubenianum ausgerichtet. Neben der Vorstellung der Work-in-Progress-Themen von insgesamt elf Teilnehmenden, sieht das Programm eine Einführung in Archivrecherche im FelixArchiefs, einen Paläografie-Workshop, eine Führung durch das Rubenianum sowie einen Besuch des kürzlich neueröffneten Königlichen Museums der Schönen Künste (KMSKA) vor.
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Neben dem Confidentia-Thema wird es auch eine freie Sektion mit Work-in-Progress-Vorträgen geben.
Deadline für Abstracts in deutscher oder englischer Sprache (zum Konferenzthema oder der Work-in-Progress-Sektion): 15. April 2022
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The present master thesis reconstructs in historical as well as in art historical perspectives Peter Paul Rubens’s sojourns in Florence and analyses his use of Michelangelo Buonarroti’s The Night and Leda as a case study for his reception process of already defined motives. The study aims to place the influence of the Florentine sojourns within the context of Rubens’s journey to Italy as well as within his œuvre by providing a profound analysis of the two above-mentioned figures. Rubens’s significant three-dimensional perception of figures was evolved in the first instance from his study of Florentine Cinquecento sculpture. In dependence on this, he included Michelangelo’s The Night and Leda with different postural variations within his own paintings. The analysis has revealed that he also used the latter figures within specific topics: the contents of all examined paintings were closely related to the original ones. Rubens used the affects of the cited figures by Michelangelo consciously in order to evoke new meanings within his own work.