2 Phd - Nwo Oc-l Project Images On The Move
2 weken geleden
Vacancy number
15273
Job type
Hours (in fte)
1,0
External/ internal
External
Location
Leiden
Placed on
12 November 2024
Closing date
8 December 2024 26 more days to apply
**2 PhD positions within the NWO OC-L project IMAGES ON THE MOVE. Friendship Albums as Pictorial Networks in Early Modern Europe (1550-1700) (1.0 fte, 4 years)**
**The project**
We are looking for enthusiastic, highly motivated, enterprising and excellent PhD-students to work on their own subprojects as well as collaborate in a research team.
In early modern Europe, students, humanists, collectors, naturalists, soldiers, merchants, civil servants, and women compiled friendship albums—alba amicorum, in Latin—containing paper traces of social networks, friendships, travel, and professional contacts. The pages of these personal volumes contain text—in the form of signatures, dedications, and mottoes—and an abundance of vivid images. Iconographically dense painted pictures, heraldic devices, costume studies and emblems in watercolour, as well as artists’ “signature” drawings figure alongside numerous printed images. IMAGES ON THE MOVE, the first scholarly and digital research project to investigate the rich pictorial culture of alba amicorum, will situate these pictorial microcosms within early modern visual culture in the era of print. The project will analyze the ways in which readers and viewers of pictorial books and printed images came to terms with this new visual language, by studying how diverse groups of users engaged and adapted it in their personal albums. The recent digitization of c.1500 alba amicorum allows for the systematic investigation of mobile vernacular imagery throughout Europe in the first half of the early modern period. The central aim of this project is to reconstruct through (art) historical analysis key components of a shared early modern European visual language, and to do so in a way that affords new insights into the use, reuse, adaptation, and interpretation of images across time and space.
**Ph-D positions**
IMAGES ON THE MOVE includes two PhD projects:
**PhD-1**:
This PhD-project investigates the material contexts of pictorial components of friendship albums and studies the role of the visual and media professionals involved in the transmission and modification of these images. Was there a specific market for album pictures, and how did this marketplace possibly evolve? Were print
- and book publishers commercially invested in album practices, and how? Who were the craftsmen involved in the execution of pictures for album owners and contributors? To what extent were album pictures selected and made by non-professionals, such as the owners or contributors themselves? What did this process of picture making include? How were the networks of people involved in the “album-business” constructed and maintained?
This PhD project will revolve around the collection and analysis of visual and archival sources (many of which located in Germany), using book historical tools and methodologies, to explore the relation between album images and the wider visual world in which they functioned.
**PhD-2**:
This project looks more closely at the role of the album pictures in the spatial frame of the album itself. Were album images tied to an inscription, and how was this link expressed? Can we see a change in the role of pictures as “independent” gifts from contributors? What kind of pictures were popular in specific chronological periods, and what iconographical motifs became iconic cornerstones in album culture over time? Who inserted an image, and why? Was a picture thought to be part of a series or collection of images? What does the insertion imply in terms of visual communication? Was the selection of certain images or pictorial themes related to social, professional, religious or gender characteristics of an album owner?
This PhD project will revolve around the collection and analysis of visual materials both in the albums and in separate printed format, using art historical and iconographical tools and methodologies to explore the relation between images, contributors, and the materiality of the album.
**Key responsibilities**
- Complete a PhD thesis within four years (1.0fte)
- Participate in meetings of the project research group(s) and events organized by the research group;
- Participate in building of AlbumPics, the database of album image that underpins our project;
- Participate in knowledge utilization activities;
- Present intermediate research results at (international) workshops and conferences;
- Publish at least one peer-review article (apart from the PhD-thesis);
- Participate in the training programme of the local Leiden Graduate School, the LUCAS Institute and the National Research School in Cultural History (Huizinga);
- Participate in intellectual life of the department and the LUCAS (PhD) community;
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