Madrid Institute for Advanced Study
Spain
fellow
Nadia Mariana Consiglieri
2025-2026
Home institution
Universidad de Buenos Aires - CONICET
Country of origin (home institution)
Argentina
Discipline(s)
Cultural studies
Theme(s)
Other
Fellowship dates
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Biography
She is a François Chevalier fellow at MIAS.
Nadia Mariana Consiglieri is an art historian. She holds a PhD in History and Theory of the Arts by Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires and a PhD by Université de Recherche Paris Sciences et Lettres - PSL Research University-, Mention on History, Texts, and Documents - École Pratique des Hautes Etudes-. She is a Research Assistant at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) (position in process). She is Full Professor of History of the Visual Arts - Middle Ages and Associate Professor in charge of History of the Visual Arts - Antiquity (FFyL UBA). She was awarded several international scholarships, including one by the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SMB) for a research stay at the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin (2023) and another by the Coimbra Group Scholarship Programme for a stay at the Università di Bologna (2024). Her current research focuses on depictions of the dragon from the iconography of warrior saints to its links with the reptile universe in cabinets of curiosities and the perspectives of early natural science in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Research Project
Beyond the Hell. Pictorial Dissemination and Variations of the Dragon in Spanish Visual Culture (15th Century- Early 16th Century)
The aim of this research is to examine the different versions of the dragon in paintings on wood, its re-elaborations and dissemination in the 15th and early 16th- century Iberian Peninsula. The important ties with artistic centers such as Flanders and Bruges will be addressed with artists, patrons and works of art from Italy, France and Germany. Dragons and demons were depicted in the warfare iconography of warrior saints, as well as several paintings involved dragons placed in minor and almost imperceptible zones like tiles, pottery, fabrics and furniture. Was it intended to create more convincing scenarios to show their usual existence in the ornamentation and design of everyday objects? Another purpose consists in tracking the factual existence of such models of dragons in contemporary survival objects and materialities, and even in designs of them to understand their scope and reuse in paintings. Not only paintings belonging to Spanish museum collections will be studied, but also from international collections as those which are part of the Argentinian museum heritage in Buenos Aires.
Research Interests:
Cultural studies