PD Dr. habil. Dominic Olariu

1991- 1995
Studied Art History, Philosophy, Medieval Latin and Medicine at the Universities of Cologne and Bonn

1995-1997
Diplôme d'Études Approfondies Sorbonne at the Sorbonne, Paris I

2006
Grande Thèse as a bi-national doctorate at the École des Hautes Études en Science Sociales Paris and the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe

2006-2007
Research assistant at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

2007-2009
DAAD guest lecturer at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

2009-2014
Research assistant at the Philipps University of Marburg

2007, 2009 and 2008
Visiting professor at the Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, and substitute professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

2016
Research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin

2018
Habilitation with venia legendi for the entire history of art and private lectureship at the Philipps University of Marburg

2019
WS Substitute professor with a focus on medieval art history (Professor Aleksandra Lipińska and Professor Stephan Hoppe)

2020
Visiting researcher at the Gotha Research Centre of the University of Erfurt

1995-1996
DAAD and French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, scholarship initialisation doctorate, Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne (fast track)

2001-2004
Scholarship holder of the German Research Foundation (DFG) in the Research Training Group "Image. Body. Medium. An anthropological perspective"

2004
German-French colloquium for art history, University of Düsseldorf

2006
German-French Colloquium for Art History, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

2006-2009
Member of the international DFG network "Power of the Face"

2010
Fondation de France, Paris, International Working Group "1500-1600. Entre Islam et Nouveaux Mondes ", Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art

2015
Visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin

2015
Research fellowship at the Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel

2016
Fritz Thyssen Foundation Research Fellowship at the Gotha Research Centre

2017
Initialization scholarship of the University of Erfurt at the Gotha Research Centre

2018
Research grant from the Klassik-Stiftung-Weimar

2019
Research grant from the Klassik-Stiftung-Weimar

Guest lectures (selection)

27/03/2019
The knowledge in the pictures of herbal books in ancient times, Menantes Society, Wandersleben

06/02/2019
Autopsy and experience. On naturalism in Italian plant books of the late Middle Ages, Philipps-Universität Marburg

05/12/2018
Political-genealogical staging strategies of the Bourbons in French Arts of the Second Restoration (1815-1830), subject area 09, University of Marburg

14/09/2018
A Hunt for Accurate Illustrations in Botanical Manuscripts at the End of the Fourteenth Century, Department of History of Art, University of York

18/05/2018
Artists and Scientists in Interaction. Observations of Nature in Plant Books around 1400, Institute of Art History, University of Heidelberg

30/11/2017
Perspectives de l'anthropologie de l'image, École Normale Supérieure, Lyon

04/05/2017
"In libro hoc scripsi et per figuram demonstravi." Plant illustrations for identification at the end of the Middle Ages, international conference: "Casting the Real: Reproduction, Translation and Interpretation in Petrarch's Time", Department of History of Art, University of York, York

14/07/2016
Der Ratzenberger Herbarius vivus als Teil visueller Epistemik im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert, Gotha Research Centre of the University of Erfurt

11/12/2015
The Upper Italian nature self-prints as precursors of herbal incunabula, Hermann Schelenz Institute for Pharmaceutical and Cultural History, Heidelberg

03/12/2015
Research perspectives: High and late medieval herbarium illustrations, Department of History, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

17/08/2015
Flowers on the dissecting table. Practices of visualisation in herbal books of the 15th century, Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel

10/07/2014
Pourtraitures and portraits. Reflections on the beginnings of the private portrait in the 14th and 15th centuries, Institute of Art History, Justus Liebig University Giessen

10/05/2011
Les nouveaux supports du portrait à la fin du Moyen Âge", "L'atelier des médiévistes", École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris

09/07/2010
Les réformes des supports au ^XVe siècle, "1500-1600. Entre Islam et Nouveaux Mondes. Les réformes dans un contexte global", Institut national d'histoire de l'art, Paris

28/11/2007
The Scrovegni Chapel - between Enrico Scrovegni and the Cavalieri Gaudenti, "SFB/FK 427 Medien und kulturelle Kommunikation, Subproject A6: Divina Commedia: Text - Image - Commentary", organised by Klaus Krüger, Padua

12/03/2007
L'avènement du portrait au ^XIIIe siècle, on Lecture series "Histoire du Moyen Âge et tradition sociologique: la notion d'individu", Institut d'histoire de l'art, Sorbonne, Paris

02/06/2006
The solidified body. Man and his portrait in the 13th and 14th centuries, "Netzwerk "Macht des Gesichts", Institute of Art History, University of Leipzig

10/03/2006
Window view into the present. Das Jüngste Gericht u. die Höllendarstellung der Arenakapelle in Padua", Bilderfragen in der Dantezeit, SFB/FK 427 Medien und kulturelle Kommunikation, subproject A6: Divina Commedia: Text-Image Commentary, University of Cologne

18/05/2006
Les réalismes du "Jugement dernier" dans la Chapelle Scrovegni, lecture series "Réalité et forme: sur quoi ouvrent les fenêtres (les réalismes dans l'œuvre d'art)", École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris

Lectures at conferences (selection)

27/07/2019
Plant Drawings and Plant Scholars in the Late Middle Ages, History of Science Society, Annual Meeting, University of Utrecht

5/07/2019
The Face of the Gisant in the Fourteenth Century, A Micrologus International Conference, National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg

2/07/2019
Materiality on the Death Bed, Section "Materiality of Death", organised by Romedio Schmitz-Esser, International Medieval Congress, Leeds

26/06/2019
Tacuina Sanitatis. A Medical Treatise Politicised, Premodern Experience of the Natural World in Translation, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin

28/06/2019
Die Aquarelle in den Florilegien von Georg Öllingers und Joachim Camerarius - Pharmazie, Naturwissenschaft und die bildgebenden Illustratoren der Botanik, "Sammeln, Forschen und Publizieren im Netzwerk der frühmodernen Gelehrtengemeinschaft - Tagung anlässlich des 250. Anniversary of the death of the Nuremberg physician, naturalist and collector Christoph Jacob Trew on 18 July 1769", FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg

01/06/2018
Plant Casting, Plant Pressing, Plant Painting, "Casting the Real", Art History Department, University of Edinburgh

21/06/2018
Les obsèques de Jean-Paul II (1978-2005). La magie des anciens rites de l'Eglise, "IMAGOPAPAE. The Pope's Image Through History, Université de Liège"

09/03/2018
The face of Wolfhard von Roth: death mask or individualisation?, "Die Bronze, der Tod und die Erinnerung. The tomb of Wolfhard von Roth in Augsburg Cathedral", Augsburg State Archives

01/12/2017
Portrait by facial imprint in the bronze tomb slab of Bishop Wolfhard von Roth in Augsburg Cathedral?, "Research project tomb slab of Bishop Wolfhard von Roth in Augsburg Cathedral", directed by Professor Rebecca Müller, Augsburg Cathedral

14/09/2017
Nature self-prints by Zenobio Pacino and an anonymous florilegium of the 16th century, "Botany and Aesthetics", University of Halle-Wittenberg

27/01/2017
Naturselbstdrucke und andere Naturalismen vor der Botanik, "Jahrestagung Forschungsstelle Naturalismen", Warburghaus, Hamburg

13/01/2017
Bookshops and Phytographisms on Paper before Otto Brunfels, Workshop "Coping with Copia II", Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz

31/03/2016
The Circulation of Plant Sources: Manuscripts, Prints, Herbaria in Modern Europe, 1400-1700. An Introduction, "62nd Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America", Park Plaza Hotel, Boston

31/03/2016
Plant Nature-Printing in Florence of the 1520s. Response to High Demand of Herbal Knowledge, "62nd Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America", Park Plaza Hotel, Boston

09/03/2016
Illustrations of Italian herbal manuscripts (15th/16th century). Reactions to an increased demand?, "Plant Images. Botanical Illustration in the Early Modern Period", Central Institute for Art History, Munich

26/06/2015
Convention and Modification: Plant Illustrations in Herbal Books, "Kräuterzeit -Zwischen Frugalität und Raffinesse", Börde-Museum Burg Ummendorf

05/06/2015
Nature Prints: Another Way of Visualising Plants, "Specimen, Text, Image: Herbaria and Paper Technology", Gotha Research Centre and Gotha Research Library

17/05/2015
Introductory Lecture "Herbals and Visualising Knowledge at the End of the^15th Century", Section "Imagery in Medieval Herbals", "International Congress on Medieval Studies", The Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo

16/05/2015
Les herbiers à impressions naturelles, entre génie épistémologique et création artistique (fin ^XVe - début ^XVIe siècle), "Coping with Copia: Epistemological Excess in Early Modern Art and Science", Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal

16/04/2015
Manuscript Herbals and Materia Medica, "Materia medica on the move. Collecting, trading, studying, and using exotic plants in the early modern period", Descartes Centre History and Philosophy of Sciences and the Humanities, Huygens ING, Leiden

26/03/2015
Herb Impressions around 1500 as Epistemic Images, "61st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America", Humboldt University, Berlin

27/08/2014
Plant self-prints by Zenobius Pacinus: a misunderstood apothecary of the 16th century?, "Forschungen an der Philipps-Universität Marburg", Hirschegg/Kleinwalsertal

08/11/2013
Change in Herbal Illustrations of the^15th Century. From Diebold Lauber's "Buch der Natur" by Konrad of Megenberg to Peter Schöffer's "Gart der Gesundheit", "Natural Science and Illustration in^15th and ^16th Centuries", Philipps-Universität Marburg

05/09/2013
New Interpretations of Herbals (^15th century), "Forschungen an der Philipps-Universität Marburg", Hirschegg/Kleinwalsertal

19/10/2013
Le portrait privé. Modalités entre les ^XIIIe et ^XVe siècles, "Comment les images sont-elles entrées dans les maisons? Se représenter chez soi", Montpellier

17/09/2013
German Herbals and their Illustrations in Early Modern Times (^15th-16th c.), "Early Modern Print Culture in Central Europe, Academia Europea Symposion", Wrocław

17/07/2011
Anti-Images in the Age of Gutenberg, "Images and their Changes in the Renaissance", Hermitage, St. Petersburg

01/05/2011
Images in the Age of Gutenberg, "Images and their Changes in the Renaissance", Hermitage, St. Petersburg

06/05/2010
Visions, miracles et punitions. Représentations du climat dans quelques manuscrits allemands du ^XVe siècle, "Art Climatology: A dialogue between the visual arts, philosophy, art history, literature, architecture and the climate", Department of Art History and Film Studies, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal

18/04/2009
Portrait at the crossroads. Topography versus Psyche?, "Final Conference of the DFG Network "Power of the Face"", Berlin

07/10/2008
Marginalia and Perspective. The frame as a spatial boundary based on Giotto, "Rahmenfragen. On the history and theory of the frame", Düsseldorf

10/05/2007
A brief mediology of the deceased body and its portrait. Based on the exhumation of Henry IV of France and his alleged death mask, "Wahrhaftigkeitskonzepte in der Arts der Frühen Neuzeit bis heute", Düsseldorf

27/07/2007
The portrait as seen by Aby Warburg, "Power of the face. Bust, head and body image in the Middle Ages and early modern times", Basel

06/07/2006
Le corps arrêté: l'ethnologie et la sociologie comme méthodes pour détecter la ressemblance des premiers portraits, "Deutsch-Französisches Kolloquium des Seminars für Kunstgeschichte", Düsseldorf

26/06/2006
Being carried to the grave in rhythm, "The rhythms of life in the Middle Ages", German Historical Institute, Paris

08/12/2005
The Body of the Pope, "Dead Bodies. Presentation and Representation", Heidelberg

03/07/2005
Empiricism and a new realism. Aspects of the Scrovegni Chapel as an Urban Propaganda System, "Mit Warburg vor dem Bild. On the topicality of iconology", Florence

13/10/2004
Body, Medicine, Style, "Style and Iconography in France and Germany", Institute for Art History, Düsseldorf

06/02/2004
Une hypothèse sur la genèse du portrait individuel, "Le portrait individuel: réflexions autour d'une forme de représentation du ^XIIIe au ^XVe siècle", Paris