Marta Faust is a historian of art and visual culture in early-modern Europe, ca. 1400–1600, with an emphasis on printed images and print culture through the 1820s. Her recent work examines the circulation of images in the Low Countries and German language regions, and investigates questions of reception, media, forms of memory, and relations between pictures and literary translations.
My research examines visual art of early modern Northern Europe with emphases on historical techniques of printing images and collecting in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and the historiography of art history.
I explore how artistic innovations of the period intersected with established viewing habits and concepts of memory and vision, and supported assertions of social identity in Reformation-era Europe.
Expertise:
- Early modern art and visual culture of Northern Europe, emphasis on print techniques and collecting
