Dr. Nadine Mai
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Curriculum Vitae
After having studied art history, Italian and Management of Museums at the Universities of Leipzig, Pisa and Hamburg, graduating with a master’s degree in 2008, she was employed by an international expert for medieval manuscripts. In 2015–2016 she was an organizer within the interdisciplinary research project "‘making (in)visible’. Cultural perspectives on covering and revealing" at the Isa Lohmann-Siems Foundation, Hamburg, with a work on Maria Magdalene dressed in hair. She was working on the exhibition “Jugendstil” at Museum of Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg. From 2014–2017 she was affiliated with the international project "Spectrum: visual translations of Jerusalem". In 2018 she finished her PhD (funded by Ev. Studienwerk Villigst) at the University of Hamburg titled “Jerusalem – Transformationen. The Chapel of Jerusalem in Bruges and monumental representations of the Holy Sites 1500”. In 2019 and 2020 she was part of the research team “Pilgern im Norden” which organized an exhibition on medieval sacred places and pilgrimage in Northern Germany at the Museum Schwedenspeicher in Stade and the Museums of Lüneburg.Research Interests
- iconography, media and materiality in medieval altar pieces
- nobility and residences (architecture und memoria)
- cult images, reliquiaries, relics
- visualization of the Passion of Christ
- sacred places and pilgrimage
- history of Jerusalem and its perception in the late medieval Europe
- portraiture in 18th and 19th century
- art around 1900