Curriculum vitae
Mgr. Veronika Kucharská, PhD.
Veronika Kucharská (1979) is a researcher at the Institute of Art History, Art Research Centre of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. She completed her studies of history and German language in 2003 at the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in Bratislava, where she obtained her PhD in 2011 in Slovak History. She completed long-term scholarship stays in Krakow (Jagiellonian University, Queen Jadwiga Scholarship Fund, 2005) and Budapest (Europa Institute, 2006 and National Scholarship Program, 2007 – 2008). Since 2014, she has been the executive editor and editor of the Ars Journal.In 2022 – 2025, she led the project VEGA 2/0019/22 Visual Sources on the History of the Kingdom of Hungary in the 16th Century, and is currently part of the research project team APVV-22-0319 At the Castle and underneath (2023 – 2027). Her research focuses on the history of the Kingdom of Hungary in the 16th century, with particular attention to the influence of the Zapolya family and to issues of monarchical representation, historical memory, and propaganda at the turn of the Middle Ages and the Early modern period.
In 2014, she published the monograph Ducissa: The Life of Princess Hedviga in the Time of the Jagiellonians, and in 2026, the Veda SAS publishing house published her monograph Imago regis: John Zapolya and his Age in the Memory of the 16th Century.