Andrea Bubenik is an expert in Renaissance and Baroque Art, and the continued reception of early modern visual culture. She is a Senior Lecturer 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 translatione 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.
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.
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
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: 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.
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.
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
The Emperor's New Clothes: The Printed Revolution of Maximilian I (1494-1519)
Doctor Philosophy
Cutting emotions skin wounds and affect in late medieval and Renaissance Art of Northern Europe
Doctor Philosophy
Appropriations of Renaissance and Baroque Art in Contemporary Australia
(2022) Master Philosophy
Bubenik, Andrea (2022). Display. Early modern court culture. (pp. 325-342) edited by Erin Griffey. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429277986-26
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 Dürer: The Appropriation of Art, 1528-1700
Bubenik, Andrea (2013). Reframing Albrecht Dürer: The Appropriation of Art, 1528-1700. 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 Dürer: The Appropriation of Art, 1528-1700
Bubenik, Andrea (2013). Reframing Albrecht Dürer: The Appropriation of Art, 1528-1700. Surrey, United Kingdom: Ashgate.
Bubenik, Andrea (2022). Display. Early modern court culture. (pp. 325-342) edited by Erin Griffey. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429277986-26
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.
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.
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
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: 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
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 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. doi: 10.1086/696420
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.
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.
The subversive icons of Ryan Presley
Bubenik, Andrea (2023). The subversive icons of Ryan Presley. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Gertrude Contemporary .
Bubenik, Andrea (2017). Ecstasy: Baroque and beyond. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland, UQ Art Museum.
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
The Emperor's New Clothes: The Printed Revolution of Maximilian I (1494-1519)
Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
Cutting emotions skin wounds and affect in late medieval and Renaissance Art of Northern Europe
Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
Women Artists and Modernism in Australia (1900-1940)
Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
The World Landscapes of Joachm Patinir
Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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An Archival Aesthetic in Contemporary Art
Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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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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Curating, Sex Work and Social Reproduction
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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Shifting priorities in representations of female musicians in Renaissance art
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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Situating architecture within aesthetics
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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Appropriations of Renaissance and Baroque Art in Contemporary Australia
(2022) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
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
Towards A Nuclear Aesthetics: Maralinga and the Art of Jonathan Kumintjara Brown and Yhonnie Scarce
(2019) Master Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
Hamlet's Ghost: Vespasiano Gonzaga and his Ideal City
(2016) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Radical Restructuring: Autonomies in Italian Architecture & Design, 1968-73
(2014) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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