Curriculum vitae
doc. PhDr. Ingrid Ciulisová, DrSc.
Ingrid Ciulisová is a Senior Research Fellow in Art History at the Art Research Centre of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (Institute of Art History) in Bratislava. Her interests include late medieval and early modern art in Europe and the historiography of art history. She has published works on art in the Low Countries, the history of art collecting, the history of art history, and monument preservation. Alongside numerous articles, such as ´Art collecting of the Central-European aristocracy in the nineteenth century: The case of Count Pálffy´ (Journal of the History of Collections, 2006), ´Memory and Witness: ´Translated Images´´ (Revue Belge d’Archéologie et d’Histoire de l’Art, 2009), ´Dvořák’s pupil Johannes Wilde (1891-1970)´ (Journal of Art Historiography, 2016), and ´The Power of Marvellous Objects. Charles IV of Luxembourg, Charles V of Valois, and their gemstones (Journal of the History of Collections, 2021), her publications include books such as ´Paintings of the 16th-Century Netherlandish Masters: Slovak Art Collections´ (2006) and ´Men of Taste: Essays on Art Collecting in East-Central Europe´ (2014). She has edited and co-edited ´Artistic Innovations and Cultural Zones (2015) and ´The Habsburgs and their Courts in Europe, 1400–1700: Between Cosmopolitanism and Regionalism´ (with Herbert Karner and Bernardo J. García García) (2014).Ingrid's work has achieved international recognition, as evidenced by her fellowships and visiting positions. She has been a Visiting Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Wassenaar and a Mellon Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. She has also received a Visiting Fellowship at the Centre for Advanced Studies of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and the Arts in Brussels and at I Tatti, The Harvard University Centre for Italian Renaissance Studies, in Florence. Additionally, she was a fellow at the Centre for the History of Collecting, associated with the Frick Collection in New York. The importance of her research was further recognised when she was invited to be a Guest Scholar at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles in 2017-18.
In 2018, Ingrid was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship. During her time at the Department of History of Art at Oxford and Corpus Christi College (2019-20), she pursued her research project on the power of marvellous objects possessed by the fourteenth-century Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV. Her work on the project was associated with the ERC Advanced Grant led by Prof. Karl Kügle. In 2024, the volume ´Luxembourg Court Cultures in the Long Fourteenth Century: Performing Empire, Celebrating Kingship´, which she co-edited with Karl Kügle and Václav Žůrek, was published by Boydell & Brewer, as was her book ´Charles of Luxembourg and his Gemstones´ (Prague: Academia). Most recently, her study on the Chandelier of Queen Sophia of Wittelsbach and the materiality of art and animals appeared in the Journal of the British Archaeological Association (2025).