Dr. Eleonora Gaudieri

Dr. Eleonora Gaudieri has been a post-doctoral research fellow at the Department of Art History at the University of Vienna since October 2023. Her project “Diplomatic and Cultural Relations between the Habsburgs and the Serenissima: The Role of Venetian Painting at the Eighteenth Century Imperial Court in Vienna” is funded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) through its APART-GSK grant programme. She holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Vienna with a dissertation on a reassessment of Alois Riegl’s concept of “Baroque” in the light of his unpublished manuscripts on European baroque art. Her main research interests are the diplomatic and cultural relations between Vienna and Venice in the Eighteenth Century, with a focus on the Settecento Venetian painting and its transfer to Vienna, as well as the German-language baroque Historiography, with a focus on the work of Alois Riegl.