Marisa Mandabach, PhD

Marisa Mandabach is an art historian and postdoctoral fellow at LMU. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2017. Her dissertation explored how concepts of materiality, creativity, and labor were formulated in the mythological paintings of Peter Paul Rubens. Focused on Early Modern Europe, her current research interests include intersections of art and natural philosophy, concepts and images of labor, the economic history of art, and the mobility and global lives of images.

Publications

“Rubens Paints the Body of Discord.” In Limina – Natur – Politik. Verhandlungen von Grenz- und
Schwellenphänomenen in der Vormoderne. Edited by Tabea Strohschneider, Annika von Lüpke, and
Oliver Bach. Forthcoming from De Gruyter, 2018.

“Mythologizing Matter: Rubens’s Images of Spontaneous Generation.” In Shaped by Nature, Forged by
Art: Image, Object, Knowledge, and Commerce in Early Modern Europe. Edited by Claudia Swan.
Forthcoming from Brill in 2018.

Manier, Mythos und Moral. Ausstellung zur Niederländischen Druckgraphik um 1600. Edited by Iris Wenderholm (Hamburg: Staats- und Universtitätsbibliothek, 2014), pp. 282-289 (“Fortuna ihre Gaben verteilend”).

Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe (seven long-form catalogue entries). Edited by Susan Dackerman (Cambridge and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011).

“Holy Shit: Bosch’s Bluebird and the Juncture of the Scatological and the Eschatological in Late Medieval Art.” Marginalia (Journal of the Medieval Reading Group at Cambridge), vol. 11 (Oct. 2010): 28-49.