Clara Nicolay

Clara Nicolay is a PhD candidate in Art History at University Graz. Her dissertation explores how artists’ involvement in theatrical practices shaped their visual and literary output. During her research residency at the MAP, she focuses on Lorenzo Lippi, examining his drawings and theatrical activities to better understand the embodied and performative dimensions of early modern artistic identity. Combining archival research with visual analysis, her project highlights the role of artistic collaboration and institutional networks in seventeenth-century Florence. Clara has presented her work at international conferences. She has taught courses on academic writing and museum communication at Goethe University Frankfurt and has gained professional experience at institutions such as the KHI, the Bibliotheca Hertziana, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, and Sotheby’s Germany. Since October 2025, she has been working as a university assistant at the Department of Arts and Musicology at KFU Graz.