Andrea completed her PhD at Queen’s University in Canada in 2007, and moved to Australia in 2009 to take up her position at UQ. Her research and teaching is focused on early modern art (especially Albrecht Dürer and his followers), histories of printmaking, links between art and science, court cultures and collecting, the historiography of art from ancient times to the present, and theories of reception. 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 (2012). Andrea is especially interested in cross disciplinary enquiry, and convened the course ‘Art, Science and New Technologies’; she is currently working on a monograph that explores images that remain unclaimed by the histories of both art and science. She also developed a study abroad option for UQ Art History students, ‘Art and Architecture in Venice’, which takes place on site in Venice, Italy, and gives students the opportunity to experience the city of Venice as their classroom, and to attend the most global of art fairs, the Venice Biennale. In her role as an Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for The History of the Emotions, Andrea curated two major exhibitions at the UQ Art Museum: Ecstasy: Baroque and Beyond (2017), and Five Centuries of Melancholia (2014); she edited the accompanying exhibition catalogues for both. In her curatorial practice Andrea explores the afterlives and migrations of images, and ways of creating and enlivening dialogues between historical and contemporary art.
Andrea has been invited to speak about her research at numerous public art galleries (national and international). She has also given radio interviews on ABC on the porgrams 'Historyonics' and 'Radio National Books and Arts Daily'.
Radio Interviews:
'Books and Arts Daily: Albrecht Dürer’s Engraving Melencolia l is 500 years old', ABC radio, August 28, 2014.
'Historyonics: The Art of Melancholy', ABC radio, August 13, 2014.
Invited Public Lectures:
‘The Still Life: An Illustrated History’. Guest speaker at the Queensland Art Gallery. Brisbane, Australia. September 10, 2014.
‘Five Centuries of Melancholia’. Exhibition opening with Michael Ann Holly and Keith Moxey at the University of Queensland Art Museum. August 29, 2014.
‘Apocalypse Now! Dürer’s 1498 Apocalypse Series’. Guest speaker at the Queensland Art Gallery for the QAGOMA Foundation Appeal. Brisbane, Australia, June 9, 2013.
‘Royal Patronage and Spanish Painting’. Guest speaker at the Queensland Art Gallery. Brisbane, Australia, August 26, 2012.
‘Mythology and Metamorphoses in Spanish Baroque Painting’. Guest speaker at the Queensland Art Gallery. Brisbane, Australia, August 12, 2012.
‘Appropriations of Albrecht Dürer’s Self-Portraits’. Guest speaker at Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, Germany, 2012.
‘Passion and Persistence in the Prints of Albrecht Dürer’. Guest speaker at the Abbey Museum of Art and Archaeology, Caboolture, Australia, April 16, 2011.
‘Contextualizing Tintoretto’s Risen Christ of 1555’. Guest speaker at the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, April 2, 2011.
‘The Self Portraits of Dürer and Rembrandt’. Guest Speaker for the University of Queensland Art Museum Masterclass for Secondary School Teachers. Oct.8, 2011.
'New Approaches to Visualizing Ovid’s Metamorphoses at Renaissance Courts’. Huntington Library, Los Angeles, February 6, 2010.
‘Passion and Persistence in the Prints of Albrecht Dürer’. Guest speaker at The Rooms Art Gallery, St. John’s, Canada, November 4, 2007.
‘The Art of Albrecht Dürer in the Context of the Court of Rudolf II’. Guest Speaker at the Institute of Art History (Ustav Dejin Umeni), Prague, Czech Republic, May 5, 2004.
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
Book Chapter: The shape of things to come: Dürer's Polyhedron
Bubenik, Andrea (2019). The shape of things to come: Dürer's Polyhedron. The persistence of melancholia in arts and culture. (pp. 68-93) edited by Andrea Bubenik. New York, NY, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429468469-5
Book: Ecstasy: Baroque and Beyond
Andrea Bubenik ed. (2017). Ecstasy: Baroque and Beyond. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: UQ Art Museum.
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.
Other Outputs: The persistence of melancholia
Bubenik, Andrea (2014). The persistence of melancholia. Five centuries of melancholia. (pp. 11-17) edited by Andrea Bubenik. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland Art Museum.
Book: Reframing Albrecht Durer: the appropriation of art, 1528-1700
Bubenik, Andrea (2013). Reframing Albrecht Durer: the appropriation of art, 1528-1700. Farnham, Surrey, United Kingdom: Ashgate.
Paragons of art and science: The reception of Leonardo da Vinci and Albrecht Durer
(2011–2012) UQ Early Career Researcher
Dialogues between Art and Science in Early Modern Courts
(2009–2010) UQ New Staff Research Start-Up Fund
Appropriations of Renaissance and Baroque Art in Contemporary Australia
Master Philosophy
Women Artists and Modernism in Australia (1900-1940)
Master Philosophy
An Archival Aesthetic in Contemporary Art
Doctor Philosophy
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 shape of things to come: Dürer's Polyhedron
Bubenik, Andrea (2019). The shape of things to come: Dürer's Polyhedron. The persistence of melancholia in arts and culture. (pp. 68-93) edited by Andrea Bubenik. New York, NY, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429468469-5
Andrea Bubenik ed. (2017). Ecstasy: Baroque and Beyond. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: UQ Art Museum.
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.
The persistence of melancholia
Bubenik, Andrea (2014). The persistence of melancholia. Five centuries of melancholia. (pp. 11-17) edited by Andrea Bubenik. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland Art Museum.
Reframing Albrecht Durer: the appropriation of art, 1528-1700
Bubenik, Andrea (2013). Reframing Albrecht Durer: the appropriation of art, 1528-1700. Farnham, Surrey, United Kingdom: Ashgate.
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
Andrea Bubenik ed. (2017). Ecstasy: Baroque and Beyond. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: UQ Art Museum.
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.
Reframing Albrecht Durer: the appropriation of art, 1528-1700
Bubenik, Andrea (2013). Reframing Albrecht Durer: the appropriation of art, 1528-1700. Farnham, Surrey, United Kingdom: Ashgate.
Bubenik, Andrea (2019). Introduction. The persistence of melancholia in arts and culture. (pp. 1-12) edited by Andrea Bubenik. New York, NY, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429468469-1
The shape of things to come: Dürer's Polyhedron
Bubenik, Andrea (2019). The shape of things to come: Dürer's Polyhedron. The persistence of melancholia in arts and culture. (pp. 68-93) edited by Andrea Bubenik. New York, NY, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429468469-5
Wenceslaus Hollar and the (re)production of Albrecht Dürer
Bubenik, Andrea (2016). Wenceslaus Hollar and the (re)production of Albrecht Dürer. Perspectives on the art of Wenceslaus Hollar. (pp. 79-89) edited by A. Bubenik and A. Thackray. Turnhouts, Belgium: Brepols.
Imitation, emulation, forgery?: copies of Albrecht Dürer's Feast of the Rosegarlands
Bubenik, Andrea (2012). Imitation, emulation, forgery?: copies of Albrecht Dürer's Feast of the Rosegarlands. Inganno - the art of deception: imitation, reception, and deceit in early modern art. (pp. 83-98) edited by Sharon Gregory and Sally Anne Hickson. Burlington, VT, United States: Ashgate Publishing.
Review of Antipodean Early Modern: European Art in Australian Collections, c. 1200-1600
Bubenik, Andrea (2019). Review of Antipodean Early Modern: European Art in Australian Collections, c. 1200-1600. Renaissance Quarterly, 72 (4), 1434-1436. doi: 10.1017/rqx.2019.391
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
Bubenik, Andrea (2018). Review of Collecting for the Public: Works that Made a Difference: Essays for Peter Hecht . Bart Cornelis, Ger Luijten, Louis van Tilborgh, and Tim Zeedijk, eds. London: Paul Holberton, 2016. Renaissance Quarterly, 71 (4), 1480-1482. doi: 10.1086/702072
Bubenik, Andrea (2017). Review of arts of display. Renaissance Quarterly, 70 (4), 1517-1519.
Bubenik, Andrea (2017). Review of Arts of Display / Het vertoon van de kunst. H. Perry Chapman, Frits Scholten, and Joanna Woodall, eds. Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 65. Leiden: Brill, 2015. 372 pp. $154. Renaissance Quarterly, 70 (4), 1517-1519.
Bubenik, Andrea (2017). Review of Echt tierisch!: Die Menagerie des Fürsten. Sabine Haag, ed. Exh. Cat. Innsbruck: Schloss Ambras. Vienna: Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, 2015. 296 pp. €24.95. Renaissance Quarterly, 70 (1), 280-281. doi: 10.1086/691864
Review of Curious visions of modernity: enchantment, magic, and the sacred
Bubenik, Andrea (2012). Review of Curious visions of modernity: enchantment, magic, and the sacred. Renaissance Quarterly, 65 (3), 882-884. doi: 10.1086/668314
Bubenik, Andrea (2012). Review of John E. Law and Bernadette Paton (eds), Communes and Despots in Medieval and Renaissance Italy. Parergon, 29 (2), 270-272. doi: 10.1353/pgn.2012.0137
Bubenik, Andrea (2012). Review of Susan Dackerman, ed., Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe and Suzanne Karr Schmidt, Altered and Adorned: Using Reniassance Prints in Daily Life. Script and Print: Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand., 36 (1), 54-57.
Bubenik, Andrea (2011). Review of Kafescioglu, Cigdem, Constantinopolis/Istanbul: Cultural Encounter, Imperial Vision and the Construction of the Ottoman Capital (Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies). Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 28 (1), 274-275.
Bubenik, Andrea (2010). Review of Bailey, Lisa, Lindsay Diggelmann, and Kim M. Phillips, eds, Old Worlds, New Worlds: European Cultural Encounters, c. 1000–c. 1750. Parergon, 27 (2), 203-205.
Review of Larry Silver and Jeffrey Chipps Smith, eds. The Essential Durer
Bubenik, Andrea (2010). Review of Larry Silver and Jeffrey Chipps Smith, eds. The Essential Durer. Renaissance Quarterly, 63 (4), 1402-1404. doi: 10.1086/658605
Bubenik, Andrea (2010). The Essential Dürer (review).. RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY, 1402-1404.
The art of Albrecht Durer in the context of the court of Rudolf II
Bubenik, Andrea (2005). The art of Albrecht Durer in the context of the court of Rudolf II. Studia Rudolphina: Bulletin of the Research Center for Visual Arts and Culture in the Age of Rudolf II, 5, 17-27.
Appropriations of Albrecht Durer’s self portraits
Bubenik, Andrea (2013). Appropriations of Albrecht Durer’s self portraits. 33rd Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art: CIHA 2012, Nurnberg, Germany, 15-20 July 2012. Nurnberg, Germany: Germanischen Nationalmuseums.
Art, Astrology and Astronomy at the Imperial Court of Rudolf II (1576-1612)
Bubenik, Andrea (2002). Art, Astrology and Astronomy at the Imperial Court of Rudolf II (1576-1612). International Symposium on the History of Science in the Rudolphine Period, Prague, Czech Republic, 22-25 October 2001. Frankfurt Am Maim, Germany: Verlag Harri Deutsch.
Bubenik, Andrea (2017). Ecstasy: Baroque and beyond.
Bubenik, Andrea (2014). Five Centuries of Melancholia. St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland Art Museum.
The persistence of melancholia
Bubenik, Andrea (2014). The persistence of melancholia. Five centuries of melancholia. (pp. 11-17) edited by Andrea Bubenik. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland Art Museum.
Paragons of art and science: The reception of Leonardo da Vinci and Albrecht Durer
(2011–2012) UQ Early Career Researcher
Dialogues between Art and Science in Early Modern Courts
(2009–2010) UQ New Staff Research Start-Up Fund
Appropriations of Renaissance and Baroque Art in Contemporary Australia
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Women Artists and Modernism in Australia (1900-1940)
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An Archival Aesthetic in Contemporary Art
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The art and literature of Chinese painter-critics through the lens of neuroscience
Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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Situating architecture within aesthetics
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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Picturing the Franco-Ottoman Alliance in the Sixteenth Century
(2019) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
(Extra)Ordinary Lives: Luis Paret y Alcázar, costumbrismo, and historical myth-making
(2016) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Riegl and Darwin: Evolutionary Models of Art and Life
(2015) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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(2019) Master Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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Hamlet's Ghost: Vespasiano Gonzaga and his Ideal City
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