Katharine Stahlbuhk

Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institute (Italy)

Between simplicity and magnificence: a friar in mercantile Florence

2024–2025: Spring

Katharine Stahlbuhk was trained as a conservator for wall paintings before her studies in art history. She obtained her Ph.D. in 2018 from Hamburg University, and she has held positions at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut (2014–2018) and the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institut for Art History (2019–2021). She was a Rush H. Kress Fellow at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (2022–2023) and is currently a postdoc fellow at the University of Padua. Her first book, Oltre il colore. Die farbreduzierte Wandmalerei zwischen Humilitas und Observanzreformen, was published in 2021 with Deutscher Kunstverlag. She has written several articles and co-curated volumes such as La monocromia nella teoria e nella pratica pittorica dal Trecento al Seicento, published with Campisano in 2022. She is also co-editor of the first German translation and critical edition of Leon Battista Alberti’s Profugiorum ab aerumna (Über die Seelenruhe), which first appeared in 2022.