Beatrice Blümer

Beatrice Blümer is a Doctoral Fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (Max Planck Society), where she is affiliated with Department Wolf. She completed her Master's degree in 2021 and is currently pursuing her PhD at the University of Kassel. Her research focuses on the copying tradition of Cristoforo Buondelmonti's Liber insularum Archipelagi, analyzing textual and pictorial descriptions of Aegean islands from Renaissance and Mediterranean art perspectives, with specialization in manuscript studies and text-image correlations.

• Renaissance Art
• Mediterranean Studies
• Manuscript Studies
• Text-Image Relations
• Culture of Knowledge
• Iconic Turn
• History of Reception

Her research has received support from international institutions such as the German Historical Institute in Rome and London, and the Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani. She is supervised by Prof. Dr. Ingrid Baumgärtner and contributes to the academic life of the Institute through her work.