Dr Lisa Mansfield

Biography/ Background

Lisa completed her BA (Honours - First Class) in Art History at La Trobe University (Bundoora Campus) before proceeding to a Doctorate at the University of Melbourne. Her PhD Dissertation on French Renaissance portraiture will be published as Representations of Renaissance Monarchy: Francis I and the image-makers with Manchester University Press in 2013. She has also presented aspects of her research widely around Australia in conferences and symposia. Before taking up a position as Lecturer in Art History at the University of Adelaide in mid-2008, she was a tutor and guest lecturer in the undergraduate art history program at the University of Melbourne from 1998 to 2005. In 2009 Lisa was awarded a 'Certificate for Oustanding Student Feedback in Teaching and Learning' by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Lisa is on study leave in semester 1, 2012.

Teaching Interests

Lisa currently teaches undergraduate courses in Art History, which integrate (non-compulsory) assessment tasks in the MUVE (Multi-User Virtual Environment) of Second Life:

 

HIST2076: Portraiture and Power

HIST2079: Art Against Society: Censorship and Iconoclasm

 

She also delivers a guest lectures on early modern art and visual culture in the semester 1, first-year History course, ‘Europe, Empire and the World, 1492-1914’. In addition, she has presented a first-year lecture on French Impressionism and Honours seminar on Renaissance art for European Studies. Lisa also writes and coordinates ‘Studies in European Art Since the Renaissance’, for the Graduate Program in Art History, and has experience teaching in the area of Curatorial and Museum Studies.

 

Since joining the School of History and Politics, Lisa has successfully supervised a large number of Honours and Masters by Coursework minor theses in a range of topics focused on both sacred and secular early modern European Art, Society and Culture from 1500 to 1800, and is presently supervising two PhD candidates.  

Research Interests

While Lisa’s research in Art History is broadly focused on early modern European art, society and culture, her area of specialisation is Renaissance portraiture, especially the representation of masculine authority and changing communicative function of portraits in past and present historical contexts. She will be presenting a master class on Renaissance portraiture at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra in March 2012 as part of the exhibition Renaissance: 15^th & 16^th Century Italian Paintings from the Accademia Carrara, Bergamo.

In addition, she is developing new directions in her research centred on the comparative analysis of censorship in art in both early modern European and contemporary visual culture, along with the impact of virtual worlds, such as Second Life for teaching and learning as well as research concerning experimental engagement with historical objects in Art History. In July 2012 she will be presenting a paper on 'The Representation of Artefacts in "Second Life": Interaction, Imagination, Interpretation, Innovation' at the 33rd Congress of the Comité international d’histoire de l’art at the Germanische Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg.

 

Publications

Refereed Book Chapter

'The Art of Conjugal Discord: A Satirical Double Portrait of Francis I and Eleanor of Austria, c. 1530-35', in Practices of Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, eds. Peter Sherlock and Megan Cassidy-Welch, Series: Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Vol. 11, Turnhout: Brepols, 2008. pp. 117-35.

Forthcoming Refereed Book

Representing Renaissance Monarchy: Francis I and the Image-Makers, Manchester University Press, 2013.

Forthcoming Refereed Book Chapter

'Face-to-Face with the "Flanders Mare": The Malfunction of Hans Holbein the Younger's Portrait of Anne of Cleves', in Fama and Her Sisters: Gossip and Rumour in Early Modern Europe, eds. Claire I. Walker, Heather Kerr and Helen Payne, Turnhout: Brepols, 2012.

Book chapter in progress

'The Virtual Art Gallery and Museum', in Teaching Humanities in the Virtual World, ed. Carol Matthews, Ashgate, 2013.

Conference proceedings

'The Representation of Artefacts in "Second Life": Interaction, Imagination, Interpretation, Innovation', in a special volume for the 33rd Annual Congress of the CIHA (International Committee for the History of Art), eds. Hubert Locher and Dan Karlholm, Deutscher Kunstverlag or Bohlau, 2014.

Non-refereed exhibition catalogue

Making Nature: Masters of European Landscape Art, ed. Jane Messenger, Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia, three catalogue entries on seveteenth-century Dutch landscapes paintings by Salomon van Ruysdael and Adrian Verboom, 2009. 

Entry last updated: Tuesday, 31 Jan 2012