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 Outstanding Student Feedback in Teaching and Learning' by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Teaching Interests

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

 

HIST 2076: Portraiture and Power*

HIST 2079: Art Against Society: Censorship and Iconoclasm

NEW COURSE FOR SEMESTER 2, 2013: 

ARTH 2000 Northern Renaissance Art and Visual Culture 

 

She also delivers a guest lecture on Reformation Art & Visual Culture in the level 1 History course HIST 1105: Europe, Empire and the World, 1492-1914 (semester 1). In addition, she presents a level 1 lecture on French Impressionism for EUST 1000 Modern Imagination in Europe and has also previously conducted a level 4/Honours seminar on Renaissance art for European Studies. Lisa also writes and coordinates ARTH 5204 European Art: Renaissance to Revolutions 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. She is presently supervising three PhD candidates conducting research on the following topics:

• Travesties of Nature & Reason: marginal and mythical masculinity in Rococo art & visual culture
• The Artistic Patronage of Queen Bona Sforza d'Aragona at the Polish Renaissance court
• Representations of hybrid creatures in fifteenth-century German Renaissance prints   

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. Most recently, she presented a master class on Italian Renaissance portraiture at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra 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 art censorship in both early modern European and contemporary visual cultures, along with the impact of virtual worlds like Second Life for teaching and learning as well as research concerning the experimental engagement with and emotional responses to historical objects in Art History. In July 2012 she is presenting a paper on 'The Representation of Artefacts in "Second Life": Interaction, Imagination, Interpretation, Innovation' at the 33rd Congress of the CIHA (Comité international d’histoire de l’art/International Commitee for the History of Art) at the Germanische Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg.

Grants

2012: Mansfield, L. Overseas Travel/Conference Grant, The Ian Potter Foundation, $2,904.

2012: Mansfield, L. CIHA (Comité international d’histoire de l’art/International Commitee    for the History of Art), Overseas Travel Grant, $1,000.

Mansfield, L. Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences/The University of Adelaide Overseas Research Travel Grant, $2,904.

2009: Speck, C. and L. Mansfield, Creating a Virtual Gallery, The University of Adelaide Teaching and Learning Grant, $20,000.

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 Chapters

'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, (2014).

Conference Proceedings (international)  

'The Representation of Artefacts in Second Life: interaction, imagination, interpretation, innovation', The Challenge of the Object/Die Herausforderung des Objekts, Congress Proceedings, Vol. 1, eds. G. Ulrich Grobmann and Petra Krutisch, Nuremberg, 2013.

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, 23 Oct 2012