Andrea Gáldy

Andrea Maria Gáldy (* 1967 ) is an archaeologist and art historian . From 2006 to 2011 she was Professor of Art History at the Florence University of the Arts in Florence .

Life

Andrea Gáldy studied Italian literature, classical archeology (including Etruscology ) at the universities of Augsburg , Perugia and Hamburg . She completed her studies in 1991 with a Magister Artium . She received her doctorate with a project on the collection of antiquities of Grand Duke Cosimo I de 'Medici from 2001 at the University of Manchester under Suzanne B. Butters. From 2003 to 2005 she was a fellow of the Henry Moore Foundation. She spent the following year as a fellow at the Harvard University Center for Studies of the Italian Renaissance " Villa I Tatti ". From 2006 to 2011 she was Professor of Art History at the Florence University of the Arts in Florence. This was followed by two years as a lecturer in art history at the British Institute of Florence; Gáldy taught there to students at Buckingham University.

In addition to her teaching activities, she was the initiator and co-founder of the working group “Collecting and Display”, which organized numerous conferences on the history of collections, such as B. "Collecting & Dynastic Ambition" in 2006.

Research priorities

Her research focuses on the history of archeology and the history of collections in the Renaissance. Along with this, she deals with the presentation of collectibles and the influence of social and religious trends on collections and collectors. Furthermore, the architecture of palaces and churches as well as private and public spaces within the princely residence are a focus of her research and teaching. A new direction lies in the connection between museology, collections and the digital humanities.

Publications (selection)

Independent writings

• Andrea M. Gáldy: Cosimo I de 'Medici as Collector: Antiquities and Archeology in Sixteenth-century Florence . Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle 2009, ISBN 978-1-4438-0172-0 (English).
• Andrea M. Gáldy: The Art, History and Architecture of Florentine Churches - a textbook for students . Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle 2016, ISBN 978-1-4438-9754-9 (English).

(Co-) editorships

• Brian Tovey with Andrea Gáldy and Hilary Hunt (Eds.): The Pouncey Index of Baldinucci's Note . Centro Di, Florence 2005 (English).
• Susan Bracken, Andrea Gáldy, Adriana Turpin (Eds.): Collecting & Dynastic Ambition . Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle 2009, ISBN 978-1-4438-1401-0 (English).
• Susan Bracken, Andrea Gáldy, Adriana Turpin (Eds.): Collecting & the Princely Apartment . Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle 2011, ISBN 978-1-4438-2591-7 (English).
• Susan Bracken, Andrea Gáldy, Adriana Turpin (Eds.): Women Patrons & Collectors . Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle 2012, ISBN 978-1-4438-3464-3 (English).
• Susan Bracken, Andrea Gáldy, Adriana Turpin (Eds.): Collecting East & West . Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle 2013, ISBN 978-1-4438-4779-7 (English).
• Andrea M. Gáldy (Ed.): Agnolo Bronzino - Medici Court Artist in Context . A collection of papers of the 2010 conference held at the British Institute of Florence. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle 2013, ISBN 978-1-4438-4412-3 (English).
• Andrea M. Gáldy, Sylvia Heudecker (Eds.): Collecting Nature (=  Collecting Histories ). Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle 2014, ISBN 978-1-4438-6055-0 (English).
• Andrea M. Gáldy, Sylvia Heudecker (eds.): Collecting Prints and Drawings (=  Collecting Histories ). Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle 2018, ISBN 978-1-4438-2272-5 (English).
• Andrea M. Gáldy, Florian Dobmeier (Eds.): Collecting & Museology (=  Collecting Histories ). Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle 2020, ISBN 978-1-5275-4228-0 (English).

Articles (selection)

In German language

• Andrea Gáldy: Hunting, Collecting, Exhibiting - Exploring the History of Collections . In: Aviso. Journal for science and art in Bavaria . No. 2 , 2013, p. 38–43 ( bayern.de ).
• Andrea M. Gáldy: Scientiae Fautoribus. Catholic enlightenment in the Swabian Benedictine monastery Irsee . In: Akademie Aktuell. Journal of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . No. 1 , 2014, p. 72-77 ( badw.de [PDF]).

Web links

• Literature by and about Andrea Gáldy in the catalog of the German National Library
• Collecting and Display website. (English).