Profile

Biography

Cordula is a lecturer in the history of art. Before joining the History of Art Department at York in 2006, she was the Speelman-Newton Fellow in Netherlandish Art at Wolfson College Cambridge (2000-2005). Her research interests lie in 17th-century Baroque Art with particular reference to the Spanish Netherlands and France. Major interests include the artist Peter Paul Rubens, religious and political imagery, royal patronage, and early modern court culture.

Departmental roles

• Chair of the Board of Studies (2008-11)
  
• Academic Secretary (2008-11)
• Senior Management Committee (2008-11)
• Chair of Teaching Committee (2008-11)
• English/History of Art Executive Committee (2008-11)

Research

Research group(s)

• Renaissance and Baroque Cluster

Confrences Organised

• Convenor of the International Conference ‘Rubens and the Human Body’, 17-18 September, University of York.
• Convenor of the International Conference ‘Exile in Early Modern Europe 1550-1715’, 21-22 September 2006, University of York.
• Convenor of the International Conference ‘Female Monasticism in Early Modern Europe’, Wolfson College, Cambridge 24-25 July 2003.
  

Grants

• 2010 Wellcome Institute Conference Support Grant
• 2007 Research Grant, Humanities Research Board of the British Academy. 
• 2006 Conference Grant from the Humanities Research Board of the British Academy 
• 2005 Conference Grant, Humanities Research Board of the British Academy and the Pump Priming Fund, University of York. 
• 2002 Conference Grants from the Humanities Research Board of the British Academy; Trevelyan Fund and the Centre for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Cambridge University.

• 2001-2002 Research Grant, Humanities Research Board of the British Academy. 
  

Supervision

Katerina Georgoulia: 'The Rubensian Human Body: Visuality, Medicine and Diet in the Age of the Baroque'

Cordula would welcome proposals for doctoral research on any topics of seventeenth-century art and culture in the Low Countries including the history of dress

Publications

Selected publications

• "Piety, Play and Power: Constructing the Ideal Sovereign Body in Early Portraits of Isabel Clara Eugenia (1568-1603)", in: Isabella Clara Eugenia: Female Sovereignty at the Courts in Madrid and Brussels, ed. by Cordula van Wyhe, Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica, (Madrid 2012).
• 'The Making and Meaning of the Franciscan Habit at Spanish Habsburg Courts', in José-Luis Colomer (ed. et al), Dressing the Spanish Way. Prestige and usage of Spanish attire at the European Courts in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica, (Madrid, 2010), pp. 1-40.
• 'Death and Immortality in Rubens' Ildefonso Altarpiece', in Anselm Steiger (ed. et al), Leichabdankung und Trauerarbeit im Zeitalter des Barock, Daphnis. Zeitschrift für Mittlere Deutsche Literatur, vol. 38 (2009), pp. 217-276.
• 'The 'Idea Vitæ Teresianæ' (1686): The Teresian Mystic Life and its Visual representation in the Southern Netherlands', in Female Monasticism in Early Modern Europe. An Interdisciplinary View, ed. Cordula van Wyhe, (Ashgate Publishers, London 2008), pp. 173-211.
• 'Reformulating the Cult of Scherpenheuvel: Marie de’Médicis and the Regina Pacis Statue in Cologne', in The Seventeenth-Century Journal, vol. 22, issue 1 (2007), pp. 41-74.
• 'Archducal Leisure and Peasant Pleasure: New Aspects of Jan Brueghel's Peasant Weddings in the Prado Museum', Münchner Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte vol. 56 (2005) pp. 83-105.
• 'Piety and Politics in the Royal Convent of Discalced Carmelite nuns in Brussels 1607-1646', Revue d'Histoire Ecclésiastique de Belgique, vol. 100, no. 1 (2005), pp. 457-487.
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'Between Chastity and Passion: The Impact of the French exiles on the Cult of Courtly Love at the Brussels Court in the 1630s', Passion, Affekt und Leidenschaft in der frühen Neuzeit, Wolfenbütteler Arbeiten zur Barockforschung, vol. 11, (Wiesbaden 2005), pp. 951-980.
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'Court and Convent: the Infanta Isabella and her Franciscan Confessor Andres de Soto', in Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 35, no 2 (summer 2004), pp. 411-445.
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'Jean Terrier', Portraicts des SS. Vertvs de la Vierge contemplees par feue S.A.S.M. Isabelle Clere Evgenie Infante d’Espagne, Pin 1635, ed. and intr. by Cordula van Wyhe, Glasgow Emblem Studies, vol.7 (Glasgow, 2002).
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'Court, City and Countryside: Jan Brueghel’s Peasant Weddings As Images of Social Unity Under Archducal Sovereignty', in: [exh. cat.] Albert and Isabella, Brussels, Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis, Madrid, Prado Museum, (Brepols 1998), pp. 151-160.

Teaching

Undergraduate

Postgraduate

• Rubens
• Early Modern Habsburg Women and their Material Legacy

External activities

Invited talks and conferences

Recent Conference Papers

• 'Being Naked and Being Clothed: The Physicality of Female Piety in the Diaries of Sister Margaret of the Mother of God (1635-1637)', Key Note Speaker, Catholic Lives. Catholic Culture in the Early Modern World, Conference, St Edmund Hall, Oxford. 18 may 2012.
  
• International Seminar, 'Clothing and the Culture of Appearances in Early Modern Europe: Research Perspectives', International Seminar, Fundación Carlos Amberes and Museo del Traje, Madrid, 2-4 February 2012
  
• ‘ Humour and Homosociability in Rembrandt’s Nightwatch’, Speelman Conference in Netherlandish Art, Wolfson College Cambridge, 23 September 2011.
  
• ‘ The Adolescent Female Body: Piety, Play and Pedagogy at the Spanish Habsburg Courts’, Children and their Bodies at Court, 1200-1800', International Colloquium, Queen Mary College, London, 3 March 2011.
  
• 'Franciscan Spirituality and Royal Sovereignty: Aspects of Religious Dress at the Spanish Habsburg Court'
  Clothing Communities in Renaissance Europe, The Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Venice, 9 April 2010
  
• 'Representing Religious Dress in Early Modern Spain'
  Early Modern History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, 10 November 2008 and Departmenal Research Seminar, Institute of Art History and Theory, University of Essex, 20 November 2008
  
• 'Devotional Objects in the Collection of Marie de' Medicis, Queen Mother of France '
  Symposium 'Collecting & Display 100BC to AD1700. Women Collectors' London, Institute of Historical Research, Tuesday 8 July 2008
• 'Nouvelle spiritualité, nouvelle éducation? Les monastères des carmélitaines dans les Pays Bas méridionaux d'après Thérèse d'Avila.'
  L'éducation religieuse des femmes dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux après le concile de Trente (XVI-XVII siècles), Symposium, Catholic University, Louvain (7 March 2008)
  
• 'Death and Immortality in Rubens' Ildefonso Altarpiece'
  Leichabdankung und Trauerarbeit. Zur Bewältigung von Tod und Vergänglichkeit im Zeitalter des Barock, Conference, Johannes a Lasco Bibliothek, Emden (23 October 2007) and Low Countries Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London 30 March 2008
  

International Conference Organisation

• Rubens and the Human Body
  Organiser of the two-day International Conference on "Rubens and the Human Body", Berrick Saul Building, University of York, 17-18 September 2010
  
• Displaced Identities: Exile in Early Modern Europe 1550-1730
  Co-Organiser of the International Conference "Displaced Identities", King's Manor, York, 22-23 September 2006
  
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Female Monasticism in Early Modern Europe
  Convenor of the International Conference, Wolfson College, Cambridge, 24-25 July 2003