Adriana Concin

Adriana Concin is a third year PhD student at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London working on a thesis that traces the artistic and cultural exchanges between the courts of Vienna, Innsbruck and Florence during the second half of the sixteenth century. Previously she completed her Bachelor at University College London before going on to pursue a Masters degree in Early Renaissance Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art. In 2017 she was chosen as the first candidate to participate in the Courtauld Institute – Vienna University exchange program, which enabled her to undertake a lengthy period of research in the Viennese archives exploring the artistic links between the Habsburg family and the Medici. Most recently, she was awarded the Studia Rudolphina fellowship, which allowed her to study in Prague at the Art History Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in March 2018. During her fellowship at the Medici Archive Project she aims to focus more closely on the interrelated cultural relationship concerning the prominent figureheads of the Habsburg and Medici courts, namely the Holy Roman Emperors Rudolf II and Maximilian II, Archduke Ferdinand II of Tyrol and the Florentine Dukes, and later Grand Dukes Cosimo I de’ Medici and Francesco I de’ Medici.