Madeline Delbé

Madeline Delbé is a doctoral student in Early Modern Art History at the Universities of Bonn, Florence, and Paris-Sorbonne (Paris–IV), where she affiliated with the international doctoral school «European Founding Myths in Literature, Art, and Music». She holds 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. Her PhD project has been supported by grants and fellowships by the University of Bonn, the Franco-German University, the German Center for Art History – DFK Paris, and the Warburg Institute in London. Since 2015, she has been a project collaborator in the rare book section of the library of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institute.

Project at Villa Médici : Practices of Entanglement. Mediating Art, Knowledge, and Trade between Florence and Flanders in the Early Modern Era (1550 – 1680)

The PhD project focuses on the mobility of Flemish and Italian artists in the late 16^th and the 17^th century, scrutinising the cultural and artistic dynamics between mainly Florence and Antwerp during this period. 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 artistic production and transfer between Florence and Flanders as well as the trading and cultural network linked to art. 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 dynamics in Europe at the time.