Speaker's Curriculum

Christine Göttler

Christine Göttler is an associate professor of Art History in the University of Washington School of Art in Seattle. She earned her MA and PhD at the University of Zurich. Her current research interests include art patronage of the Portuguese merchants in early modern Antwerp; visual media and religious practice; northern Netherlandish art; Jesuit art, and the imagery of the soul.

Selected Publications

°Göttler, Christine. Die Kunst des Fegefeuers nach der Reformation. Kirchliche Schenkungen, Ablaß; und Almosen in Antwerpen und Bologna um 1600, Berliner Schriften zur Kunst, vol. 7. Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 1996.
° ________. "Immaterielle Körper - 'Seelen in Wachs': Material, Mimesis und Memoria in der religiösen Kunst um 1600," [Immaterial Bodies - Soul-Portraits in Wax: Material, Mimesis, and Memory, circa 1600], in Ebenbilder. Kopien von Körpern - Modelle des Menschen, ed. Jan Gerchow, exh. cat., Ruhrlandmuseum Essen (Hatje Cantz, 2002).