Chantal Maria Reissel

Chantal Maria Reissel earned her B.A. in European Studies (including Art History, Italian Studies, and Digital Humanities) in 2019 from the University of Passau and obtained her Master’s Degree in Art History at the University of Bonn in January 2023, with a thesis on the portraiture of the Florentine Renaissance artist Giuliano Bugiardini. During the course of her studies, she spent one semester each at Italian universities, namely the Università degli Studi di Perugia and the Università degli Studi di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’. From September 2021 to February 2022, she worked as a student assistant at the library of the Kunsthistorisches Institut (Max-Planck-Institut) in Florence. Currently, she is preparing a PhD project on the Florentine portraiture of the early Cinquecento, with a strong focus on questions of attribution and chronology.