Dr. Marte Stinis
EDUCATION
University of York, PhD
Doctor of Philosophy in History of Art, supervised by Professor Elizabeth Prettejohn, examined by Professor Anthony Geraghty and Professor Tim Barringer (Yale) on 20 September 2021
Music as Aesthetic Paradigm: Frederic Leighton, Albert Moore, and James McNeill Whistler
The Courtauld Institute, MA
History of Art, supervised by Professor Caroline Arscott
Universiteit Leiden, BA (Hons)
History of Art (with Honours)
EMPLOYMENT
The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL, Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving)
English Editor, May 2024 – present
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Postdoctoral Fellowship, September 2022 – April 2023
Aspectus: A Journal of Visual Culture
Editor-in-Chief, 2019-2020
University of York
Lecturer, January – December 2019
PUBLICATIONS
“Immersion through authenticity: Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s classicism and theatre”, expected 2025 with Bloomsbury
“Ut pictura musica: Musical metaphors and aesthetic contemplation in the arts, 1840-1900″, Musica & Figura 9 (2022): 105-120
國家主義與意識型態的視覺性──「醜現代性：看不見的那一面」研討會紀實一 (“Nationalism and ideology: Reviewing the ‘Ugly Modernity’: Its Unseen Sides’ conference [Part 1]”), translated by Louise Yu-Jui Yang, special issue Artist 581, no. 10 (2023): 104-109
醜的二元性──「醜現代性：看不見的那一面」研討會紀實四 (“Dualities of ugliness: Reviewing the ‘Ugly Modernity: Its Unseen Sides’ conference [Part 4]”), translated by Louise Yu-Jui Yang, special issue Artist 581, no. 10 (2023): 122-127
“‘While he listened, he looked’: John Singer Sargent and orchestral imagery”, Nineteenth-Century Contexts 45, no. 1 Music and the Senses (2023): 23-34
“Musical experience in the bower: D.G. Rossetti, listening, and space”, special edition on D.G. Rossetti and music, Journal of Victorian Culture 27, no. 2 special issue Rossetti and Music (April 2022): 236-251
“Pre-Raphaelite Sisters: In conversation”, roundtable with Elizabeth Prettejohn, Maddie Boden, Melissa Gustin, Caitlin Doley, Aspectus: A Journal of Visual Culture no. 2 (October 2020): 1-18
“‘Desire is what counts’: D.G. Rossetti’s The Blessed Damozel in a network of artistic connections”, Pre-Raphaelite Society Review 28, no. 1 (Spring 2020): 3-7
“‘One of the most marvellously perfect things that has been produced’: James McNeill Whistler’s search for Venus”, Aspectus: A Journal of Visual Culture no. 1 (October 2019): 1-14
EVENTS/TALKS
“Romanticism beyond Europe: Raden Saleh and Dutch colonialism”, Romanticism’s Colonial Legacies In and Beyond Europe, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, 10-12 October 2024
‘My lovely London fogs’: The aesthetics of pollution”, ESNA Conference: Living apart together? The troubled and treasured relationship between nature and human beings in art 1789-1914, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, 24 May 2024
“‘Colour for its own sake’: The search for colour-music associations in Victorian Aestheticism”, Colour Matters, University of Oxford, Sorbonne Université de Paris, Ashmolean Museum, 6-8 December 2023
“‘Sound resounded from all the treetops’: The musical landscape”, Europäische Romantik, University of York, Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena, 19-21 September 2023
“Love and longing: Intermedial relationships between painting and music in the 1850s”, Rossettis: In Relation, Tate Britain, London, 15-16 June 2023
“Depicting Romantic music-making”, Europäische Romantik, Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena, 28-30 March 2023
“Pre-Raphaelitism and Aestheticism: Why music?”, guest lecturer at De Morgan Foundation, 21 November 2021
“Moulding, weaving, visualising: Frederic Leighton and the listener”, 20th International Association RIdIM (Répertoire Internationale d’Iconographie Musicale), Lucerne, Switzerland, 27-29 June 2021
“Fauvism, lyricism, and pictorial rhythm: ‘Modern expression’ in Yorozu Tetsugoro”, Reflecting/Reflected Modernity, 8-9 June 2021
“Immersion through authenticity: Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s classicism and theatre”, Antiquity and Immersivity, University of Bristol, 8, 15, 22, 29-30 March 2021
“Imag(in)ing listening in the nineteenth century: Moore, Whistler, Leighton”, guest lecturer for Synchronicity, University of York, 27 November 2020
“The embodiment of pictorial colour: Vincent van Gogh’s ‘symphonies in colour’”, Deconstructing Embodiment(s), University of York, 13 March 2020
“Maria Zambaco in bronze: L’amour irrésistible, power, and desire”, Pre-Raphaelite Sisters: Making Art, University of York, National Portrait Gallery London, 12-13 December 2019
“Blake, Swinburne, and art for art’s sake”, William Blake and the Idea of the Artist, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies on British Art, Tate Britain, 29 November 2019
“Drawing sculpture in fragmentation: Whistler, Rodin and non finito“, Sense-Perception: Sculpture, Drawing and the Influence of Classicism, Henry Moore Studios & Gardens, Henry Moore Institute, 12 October, 29 November 2021
“Edward Burne-Jones’s The Golden Stairs (1880): Reassessing music as painted movement”, Reassessing Burne-Jones, Tate Britain, University of Oxford, 21-22 February 2019
AWARDS
University of York
Humanities Research Centre Fellowship, awarded for excellence of doctoral research
Pre-Raphaelite Society Review
John Pickard Prize, awarded for the essay “‘Desire is what counts’: D.G. Rossetti’s The Blessed Damozel in a network of artistic connections”
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