Hon. Prof. Dr. habil. Angela Dressen
| Since 2005 | Librarian at the Bibliotheca Berenson, Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florenz, Italy (Andrew W. Mellon Librarian) |
| 2005 | PhD in Art History, University of Trier |
| 2006 | Master in Library and Information Science, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin |
| 1999-2005 | Collaborator in the two Max-Planck-Institute libraries in Rome and Florence |
| Since 2014 | board member of the Open Access Online Journals Kunsttexte.de |
| 2019 | Habilitation at the Technische Universität Dresden, appointment as “Privatdozentin” (faculty member) |
| SS 2020 | Visiting professorship at the University of Vienna |
| WS 2021-2022 | Substitution professorship at the Friederich-Schiller-Universität Jena |
| 2015-2022 | Discipline Representative for Digital Humanites at the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) |
| 2022 | Chair of RSA Virtual 2022 |
| 2026 | Honorary Professor of Art History and Digital Humanities (Dresden University of Technology) |
Publications
Monographs
- Pavimenti decorati del Quattrocento in Italia (James-Ackerman-Award for the History of Architecture 3), Venezia: Marsilio 2008
- The Library of the Badia Fiesolana: Intellectual history and education under the Medici (1462-1494), Florence: SISMEL 2013
- The Intellectual Education of the Italian Renaissance Artist, New York: Cambridge University Press 2021
Essays and Articles
- “Roma e l’impero prima della riforma“ (Konferenzbericht des Graduiertenkollegs ‚Schriftkultur und Gesellschaft im Mittelalter‘, Münster 21.-22.1.1999), in: Roma nel Rinascimento, 1998 [1999], pp. 260-264
- “Oliviero Carafa committente all’antica nel Succorpo del Duomo di Napoli“, in: Römische Historische Mitteilungen (RHM) 46, 2004, pp. 165-200
- “Trajansforum“, in: Rom. Meisterwerke der Baukunst von der Antike bis heute. Festgabe für Elisabeth Kieven, ed. by Christina Strunck, Petersberg 2007, pp. 37-43
- “Biblioteche: l’architettura e l’ordinamento del sapere“, in: Il Rinascimento italiano e l’europa, vol. 6: L’architettura del Rinascimento in Italia, ed. by Donatella Calabi and Elena Svalduz, Costabissara, Fondaziona Cassamarca 2010, pp. 199-228 (with Joseph Connors)
- “Pavimenti veneziani e lo spazio architettonico“, in: Kunsttexte 01/2011
- “The Marble Philosophers”, conference proceedings of the Annual conference of the Renaissance Society of America 2010 in Venice, Panel: Representations of Philosophers in Art, ed. by Helen Langdon, in: Kunsttexte 2/2011
- “Peripatetici pariter et platonici: Poliziano and Pico della Mirandola and the library of the Badia Fiesolana”, in: The Artist as Reader. On Education and Non-Education of Early Modern Artists, in: Intersections. Yearbook for Early Modern Studies, v. 27, ed. by Claus Zittel, Michael Thimann, Heiko Damm, Vera Koppenleitner, 2012, pp. 367-383
- “Il futuro del pavimento cosmatesco”, in: La Cattedrale di Cività Castellana, ed. by Luca Creti, Rome 2012, pp. 233-246
- “The umbilico of the world: the pavement of the Roman Capitol”, in: Renaissance Studies in Honor of Joseph Connors, ed. by Louis A. Waldmann and Machtelt Israels, Florence 2013, pp. 333-338, 841-842
- “Schriften des Origenes in Florentiner Bibliotheken der Frührenaissance“, in: Origenes Humanista. Pico della Mirandolas Traktat ‚De salutate Origenis disputatio‘, ed. by A. Fürst and C. Hengstermann, Münster 2015, pp. 99-111
- “Picturing the Badia Fiesolana as a Medicean academic locus amoenus”, in: The Badia Fiesolana – Augustinian and Academic locus amoenus in the Florentine hills. Conference publication, ed. by Angela Dressen and Klaus Pietschmann, Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2016, pp. 21-32
- “Bernard Berenson’s Cinquecentine – A bibliophile and his Renaissance library”, in: I Tatti Studies, 2017, pp. 229-252
- [conference review:] (Art-) History goes digital. (München, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 21.07.2017). In: ArtHist.net, Oct 3, 2017
- “From Dante to Landino: Botticelli’s Calumny of Apelles and its sources”, in: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, 2017, pp. 324-339
- “Grenzen und Möglichkeiten der digitalen Kunstgeschichte und der Digital Humanities – eine kritische Betrachtung der Methoden”, in: Critical Approaches to Digital Art History, ed. by Angela Dressen and Lia Markey, Kunsttexte 4/2017
- “Open Access und Open Data – wo stehen wir?”, in: Bibliothek. Forschung und Praxis, 2018, 42, 1, pp. 1-8