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ARIANE VARELLA BRAGA

PERSONAL DOCENTE, INVESTIGADOR O TCO.

HISTORIA DEL ARTE

FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA

avarela@geo.uned.es

(+34) 91398-

Academic Information

Ariane Varela Braga is an art and architecture historian and Ramon y Cajal Research Fellow at the Department of Art History of the UNED in Madrid. She holds a PhD in art history from the University of Neuchâtel and an Italian habilitation (Abilitazione scientifica nazionale) as Associate Professor for architectural history. She has taught at the universities of Zurich (2014-2019) and Geneva (2019-2020), and has been Visiting professor at the Università degli Studi di Milano in 2022. She is associate researcher at HISTARA/EPHE, and the Latin American Center in Zurich. Prior to joining the UNED, she was a fellow at the Académie de France in Rome - Villa Médicis
(2022-2023).
She was awarded competitive grants and fellowships from the the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (Bibliotheca Hertziana), the Institut National d’histoire de l’art, Paris, the Universities of Neuchâtel and Zurich, the Swiss Institute in Rome, the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art, and the Swiss National Science Foundation, among
others. In 2023, she was awarded a Ramón and Cajal Fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Science and joined the Departement of Art History of the UNED. Her research lies at the crossroads of art history, architecture and material culture. She is the author of numerous articles and volumes on the theory of ornament in the 19th century, architectural orientalism and polychrome marble. She has also worked on various exhibitions, notably at the TU in Berlin, the Vitromusée Romont and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC USP) in São Paulo (Brazil).

Academic Information

Ariane Varela Braga is an art and architecture historian and Ramon y Cajal Research Fellow at the Department of Art History of the UNED in Madrid. She holds a PhD in art history from the University of Neuchâtel and an Italian habilitation (Abilitazione scientifica nazionale) as Associate Professor for architectural history. She has taught at the universities of Zurich (2014-2019) and Geneva (2019-2020), and has been Visiting professor at the Università degli Studi di Milano in 2022. She is associate researcher at HISTARA/EPHE, and the Latin American Center in Zurich. Prior to joining the UNED, she was a fellow at the Académie de France in Rome - Villa Médicis
(2022-2023).
She was awarded competitive grants and fellowships from the the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (Bibliotheca Hertziana), the Institut National d’histoire de l’art, Paris, the Universities of Neuchâtel and Zurich, the Swiss Institute in Rome, the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art, and the Swiss National Science Foundation, among
others. In 2023, she was awarded a Ramón and Cajal Fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Science and joined the Departement of Art History of the UNED. Her research lies at the crossroads of art history, architecture and material culture. She is the author of numerous articles and volumes on the theory of ornament in the 19th century, architectural orientalism and polychrome marble. She has also worked on various exhibitions, notably at the TU in Berlin, the Vitromusée Romont and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC USP) in São Paulo (Brazil).

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Research

RESEARCH GROUPS

  • Arpacec Arte y Patrimonio Cultural en la Edad Contemporánea (UNED, GI101). + info
  • Arte y Pensamiento Arte y Pensamiento en la Edad Moderna y Contemporánea (G114 H32). +info
  • NeReMa NeReMa-International Networknfor Research on Marble and Decorative Stones +info
  • Historismus Réseau suisse pour l’historicisme +info
  • HISTARA Histoire de l'art, des représentations et de l'administration en Europe +info
  • Latin American Center Latin American Center +info

RESEARCH PROJECTS

  • Miembro del grupo de investigación ‘Maquettes d’architecture’ IP Sabine Frommel, HISTARA, Histoire de l’art, des représentations et de l’administration en Europe (EA 7347), Ecole Pratiques des Hautes Etudes, Paris. +info
  • Partecipacion come consulente científico en el proyecto METAMIC METAMIC: Digital Cultural Heritage: a Partecipatory Metaverse of the Unbuilt Architecture of Michelangelo Buonaroti, Università di Camerino, IP Federico Bellini, financiado por el PRIN 2022 PNRR, 11/2023-11/2025
  • MARBRE. Identité, mémoire et matérialité IP en el proyecto MARBRE. Identité, mémoire et matérialité, de l’unification italienne au fascisme, financiado por Académie de France à Rome-Villa Médicis, 09/2022-08/2023. +info

Publications

  • PUBLICACIONES EN ARTÍCULOS Y CAPÍTULOS DE LIBROS RECIENTES (últimos cinco años)

    2024 – “Éclats polychromes. L’opus sectile de la Villa Médicis”. En Francesca Alberti, Ariane Varela Braga, eds., Pierres, Matières, Surfaces à la Villa Médicis, Roma/Cinisello Balsamo: Villa Médicis/Silvana Editoriale, pp. 110-123.

    2022a – “Du marbre en terre helvète. Matérialité et symbolique du marbre en architecture à l’âge des États-nations”. En Sabine Frommel, Raphaël Tassin, eds., Arts et pouvoirs. Un dialogue entre continuité, ruptures et réinvention, Paris/Roma, Hermann/Campisano, pp. 53-62.

    2022b – “Villa Monticello”. En Marcelo Fagiolo, Alessando Massa, eds., I Monti Parioli e il ‘Nuovo Campo Marzio’ della ricreazione e della cultura, Roma, Artemide, pp. 140-149. 

    2021a – “Microorganisms, Microscopes, and Victorian Design Theories”, British Art Studies, 21.

    2021b – “Through the Looking Glass of the Orient: Colour, Geometry, and the Kaleidoscope”, Manazir Journal, 3, pp. 78-92.

    2021c – “Revisiting the Alhambra. Transmediality and Transmateriality in 19th-Century Italy”. En Francine Giese, ed., Mudejarismo and Moorish Revival in Europe. Cultural Negotiations and Artistic Translations in the Middle Ages and 19th-century Historicism, Boston/Leiden, Brill, pp. 463-489.

    2021d – “Il Gusto Moresco. Amateurs and Artists in Florence and Rome during the Second Half of the 19th Century”. En Francine Giese, ed., Mudejarismo and Moorish Revival in Europe. Cultural Negotiations and Artistic Translations in the Middle Ages and 19th-century Historicism, Boston/Leiden, Brill, pp. 173-191.

    2021e – “The Hybridization of Sebka Ornament”. En Francine Giese, ed., Mudejarismo and Moorish Revival in Europe. Cultural Negotiations and Artistic Translations in the Middle Ages and 19th-century Historicism, Boston/Leiden, Brill, pp. 431-459.

    2021f – [junto a Francine Giese] “The Fortune of the Court of the Lions and the Court of the Dolls. Artistic Translations and Processes of Decontextualization”. En Francine Giese, ed., Mudejarismo and Moorish Revival in Europe. Cultural Negotiations and Artistic Translations in the Middle Ages and 19th-century Historicism, Boston/Leiden, Brill, pp. 379-409.

    2021g – [junto a Francine Giese], “The Alhambra as a Historicist Matrix for Museum Display”. En Francine Giese, ed., Mudejarismo and Moorish Revival in Europe. Cultural Negotiations and Artistic Translations in the Middle Ages and 19th-century Historicism, Boston/Leiden, Brill, pp. 327-347.

    2021h – [junto a Katrin Kaufmann, Ekatarina Savinova], “Learning from Casts and Models. Schools and Academies in 19th-Century Europe and the Specific Case of the Alhambra Collection in St. Petersburg”. En Francine Giese, ed., Mudejarismo and Moorish Revival in Europe. Cultural Negotiations and Artistic Translations in the Middle Ages and 19th-century Historicism, Boston/Leiden, Brill, pp. 235-265.

    2020a – “Moorish Architectural Models in the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire in Geneva”, historismus.ch, revue suisse de l’historicisme, 1, 2020, pp. 66-72.

    2020b – “Le Museo artistico industriale de Rome: un South Kensington italien?”. En Pamela Guerdat, et al., eds., Pèlerin sans frontières: mélanges, Genève, Droz, pp. 359-364.

    2020c – “Owen Jones, Gottfried Semper et les origines anthropologiques de l'art ornemental”, Palindromo, 12/27, pp. 35-55.

    2019a – “Between Crisis and Renewal. Exoticism and the Decorative Arts at the International Exhibitions in the 19th and early 20th centuries”. En Carmen Sanz Diaz, ed., Actas del III Encuentro del Museo Cerralbo, Madrid, Museo Cerralbo, pp. 77-99.

    2019b – “Visualising a Universal Theory of Ornament. Owen Jones’ “Grammar of Ornament” (1856)”. En Anne Kockelkorn, Nina Zschocke, eds., Productive Universals - Specific Situations. Analysis and Intervention in Art, Architecture and Urbanism, Berlin, Sternberg Press, pp. 70-91.

    2019c – “Hermann Hammann: un historien des arts décoratifs à Genève”. En Frédéric Hueber, Sylvain Wenger, eds., Regards croisés sur les arts à Genève (1846-1896), Genève, Georg, pp. 201-218.

    2019d – “‘Troppo amanti degli oggetti orientali’? Ferdinando Panciatichi Ximenes d’Aragona, a Collector of Islamic Art in Nineteenth-Century Florence”. En Francine Giese, Mercedes Volait, Ariane Varela Braga, eds., A l’Orientale ̶ Collecting, Displaying and Appropriating Islamic Art and Architecture in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Leiden/Boston, Brill, pp. 165-176.

    2019e –“Détours orientaux sur les rives du Léman. Les modèles islamiques à l’École des Arts Industriels de Genève”.En Francine Geise, Leïla el-Wakil, Ariane Varela Braga, eds., L’Orient en Suisse. Architecture et intérieurs néo-islamiques au 19e et 20e siècles, Berlin, De Gruyter, pp. 165-183.

    2019f – “Do exotismo à perspectiva global. Owen Jones e a gramática do ornamento em série”, Revista de História da Arte – Serie W: The Art of Ornament. Senses, archetypes, shapes and functions, 8, pp. 5-14.

    2019g – [junto a Francine Giese], “Translocation Metropolitan Display Strategies in 19th-century Europe. Frederick Stibbert, Henri Moser and their Orientalist Style Rooms”, International Journal of Islamic Architecture, 8/1, pp. 115-140.
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 Others

2023 Comisaria de la exposicion [junto con Ana Magalhães] Cybèle Varela. Imaginarios Pop, Museu de arte contemporanea de São Paulo, Brasil.

2023 Comisaria de la exposicion [junto con Francine Giese y Sarah Tabbal] Iconic Pieces. Verres emblématiques de Venise, Vitromusée Romont, Suiza

2022  Comisaria de la exposicion [junto con Francine Giese y Sibylle Walther] Seguso Vetri d’Arte : répertoire artistique, Vitromusée Romont, Suiza

2021 Comisaria de la exposicion [junto con Francine Giese y Sibylle Walther] Interconnected – Venise et Romont en dialogue, Vitromusée Romont, Suiza

2018 Comisaria de la exposicion [junto con Valentina Locatelli] Cybèle Varela. Tropicalismo Remixed, Brasilea Stiftung, Basilea, Suiza.

2017   Comisaria de la exposicion [junto con Francine Giese y Sarah Keller], A Fashionable Style. Carl von Diebitsch und das maurische Revival, Architekturmuseum der Technischen Universität Berlin. En el contexto del proyecto SNSF Mudejarismo and Moorish Revival.

2016  Comisaria de la exposicion digital [junto con Francine Giese] Wilhelm Meyer and the Dream of al-Andalus. En el contexto del proyecto SNSF Mudejarismo and Moorish Revival.

2015 Comisaria de la exposicion digital [junto con Francine Giese] Mythos Orient. Ein Berner Architectkt in Kairo. En el contexto del Proyecto SNSF Mudejarismo and Moorish Revival.