Collegium Helveticum
Switzerland
fellow
Urte Krass
2023-2024
Home institution
University of Bern, CH
Country of origin (home institution)
Switzerland
Discipline(s)
Arts and arts studies
Theme(s)
Information & media; Other
Fellowship dates
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Biography
Urte Krass is professor of early modern art history at the University of Bern, CH. Apart from her central research focus, the material culture of Christian sainthood, she is especially interested in political iconography and the political use of images. Her aim is to combine these “classical” fields of research with more recent approaches of a transregional and transcultural art history.
Urte Krass is the author of Nah zum Leichnam. Bilder neuer Heiliger im Quattrocento (Berlin/Munich, 2012) and of The Portuguese Restoration of 1640 and Its Global Visualization. Political Iconography and Transcultural Negotiation(Amsterdam, 2023). She is the principal investigator of the recently launched SNF Consolidator project Global Bones. Entanglements, Transfers, and Translations in the Early Modern Age.
Research Project
Global Bones Entanglements, Transfers, and Translations in the Early Modern Age
During her fellowship at the Collegium Helveticum, Urte Krass will begin work on her project monograph, concentrating on the chapter on European knowledge of burial practices of cultures in Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the 16th and 17th centuries (working title The Deaths of the Others). Together with Associate Fellow Maarten Delbeke, Urte will host a Collegium Helveticum Lecture on the problem of human remains in today’s museums and collections.
Research Interests:
Europe; knowledge; 16th century; 17th century; history