Romana Sammern

Romana Sammern is a Senior Scientist and academic program coordinator at the inter-university cooperation Science & Art between Paris Lodron University Salzburg and Mozarteum University. Her research spans European art history (1300–1800), focusing on intersections between body, image, medicine, and material studies. She completed her habilitation at the University of Passau (2024) and previously held research positions at Max Planck Institute Florence and Humboldt University Berlin.

• Education: PhD in Art History (Berlin 2011), studies in Salzburg, Vienna, Berlin

Her research interests include Medical Humanities, Visual Literacy, and Historical Concepts of Beauty, analyzing early modern color theory, cosmetic practices, and artistic techniques. Current projects involve editing volumes on Beauty: The Body as Artifact (Routledge 2026) and Pygmalion. Artificial Bodies (Sonderzahl). She also explores material decay in Sustainably Transient.

Recent publications examine Renaissance love imagery, skin color representation, and intersections of art and cosmetics. Her coordination role involves organizing events on physiological visualization within the Figurations of Transition program area. No teaching events are listed for Winter Semester 2025/26.