Invited Keynote Speaker
Guiseppina Raggi holds a PhD in Art History (2005) from the University of Lisbon (Portugal) and the University of Bologna (Italy). Her research specializes in quadratura painting and the artistic and cultural exchanges between Italy, Portugal, and colonial Brazil in the 17th and 18th centuries. In recent years, her work has focused on artistic circulation within both European and Atlantic contexts, bringing new historical protagonists to light. In 2021, she published the book O projeto de D. João V. Lisboa ocidental, Mafra e o urbanismo cenográfico de Filippo Juvarra and co-edited the volume Filippo Juvarra, Domenico Scarlatti e il ruolo delle donne nella promozione dell’opera in Portogallo. Most recently, she contributed the chapter “Artistic Patronage and Agency of Black People in Early Modern Brazil: Two Ceiling Paintings in Salvador and Olinda” to The Routledge Companion to the Global Renaissance, edited by Stephen John Campbell and Stephanie Porras (New York: Routledge, 2024, pp. 624–639). She is currently the Principal Investigator of the project “Making Portugal,” funded by the FCT.
Other Speakers
Martin Mádl is an art historian specializing in early modern art, with a particular focus on the documentation and interpretation of 17th- and 18th-century ceiling paintings in the Czech lands. He works as a researcher at the Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, and teaches externally at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, and the Faculty of Restoration, University of Pardubice in Litomyšl. He is the editor and co-author of monographs on the painters Carpoforo and Giacomo Tencalla, on mural paintings in Benedictine monasteries, and on the Slavata Palace in Prague. His current research focuses on techniques used in Baroque ceiling painting in Central Europe.
Michaela Šeferisová Loudová studied Art History and History at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno, and Art History at the University of Vienna (Herder Prize Scholarship). She is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Art History at Masaryk University. Her research focuses on Central European Baroque painting, especially wall paintings, with particular attention to their iconography, function, and meaning. She has published numerous articles and studies in Czech and international academic journals. In 2016, she contributed to the Corpus of Baroque Wall Painting in the Bohemian Lands (Benedictines I–II, Prague 2016). She is currently part of the research team working on the project Baroque Ceiling Painting between Theory and Praxis, which examines the creative process of wall painting, including period technical procedures. She is also the author of the monograph In the Name of Wisdom: The Iconography of Baroque Libraries in Moravia in the 18th Century (Prague 2018).
Radka Nokkala Miltová works as an associate professor in the Department of Art History of Masaryk university, Brno (Czech Republic). Her research centres on the history of early modern art in Bohemia and Moravia, especially on iconography and the reception of ancient mythology in art. She has published two monographs and several essays on the early modern art of Central Europe.
Sofia Braga has a degree in History of Art (School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, 1998), a master degree in History of Art, Heritage and Theory of Restoration (School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, 2012) and a Ph.D. in History of Art (School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, 2021), with the thesis: «Behold the talented painter, Master Cyrillo, great in the lesson, and in the style»: Artistic dynamics in the work of Cyrillo Volkmar Machado (1748-1823). She is a collaborative researcher of the “Lisbon Studies Group”, in the Art History Institute, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa - School of Social Sciences and Humanities / IN2PAST - Associate Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Heritage, Arts, Sustainability and Territory. Her research areas focus the late modern and early contemporary mural painting, the fine-arts academism, and the early historiography of art.
Tadeáš Kadlec is a Ph.D. candidate at Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. His doctoral research focuses on the painter Johann Peter Molitor (1702–1757) and the broader contexts of his work in Bohemia and Central Europe. In addition to seventeenth - and eighteenth-century painting, he also works on Baroque architecture. He devoted his M.A. thesis to the Michna Palace in Prague (2021), recently contributed to a monograph on the Slavata Palace in Prague (2024), and has published on the former Czernin Garden Palace in Vienna-Leopoldstadt (2025). He has also taken part in the interdisciplinary research project Baroque Ceiling Painting between Theory and Praxis, led by Martin Mádl (2021–2023). Alongside his academic work, he is a conservator specializing in the restoration of artworks and decorative objects at the General Directorate of the National Heritage Institute in Prague.
Veronika Nagy research area: Baroque wall painting, monument preservation. Teaches theory of monument preservation at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University (Budapest) and the Hungarian University of Fine Arts (Budapest). Member of the research project "Baroque Fresco Painting in Hungary". She participated in the editorial work for the book series "Baroque Fresco Painting in Hungary. Her PhD dissertation (2014) focuses on the fresco work in Sümeg by Franz Anton Maulbertsch. Curator of several exhibitions, including the Maulbertsch exhibition in the Bishop's Palace in Sümeg, which was chosen as The Exhibition of the Year” in Hungary in 2022.
Guiseppina Raggi holds a PhD in Art History (2005) from the University of Lisbon (Portugal) and the University of Bologna (Italy). Her research specializes in quadratura painting and the artistic and cultural exchanges between Italy, Portugal, and colonial Brazil in the 17th and 18th centuries. In recent years, her work has focused on artistic circulation within both European and Atlantic contexts, bringing new historical protagonists to light. In 2021, she published the book O projeto de D. João V. Lisboa ocidental, Mafra e o urbanismo cenográfico de Filippo Juvarra and co-edited the volume Filippo Juvarra, Domenico Scarlatti e il ruolo delle donne nella promozione dell’opera in Portogallo. Most recently, she contributed the chapter “Artistic Patronage and Agency of Black People in Early Modern Brazil: Two Ceiling Paintings in Salvador and Olinda” to The Routledge Companion to the Global Renaissance, edited by Stephen John Campbell and Stephanie Porras (New York: Routledge, 2024, pp. 624–639). She is currently the Principal Investigator of the project “Making Portugal,” funded by the FCT.
Other Speakers
Martin Mádl is an art historian specializing in early modern art, with a particular focus on the documentation and interpretation of 17th- and 18th-century ceiling paintings in the Czech lands. He works as a researcher at the Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, and teaches externally at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, and the Faculty of Restoration, University of Pardubice in Litomyšl. He is the editor and co-author of monographs on the painters Carpoforo and Giacomo Tencalla, on mural paintings in Benedictine monasteries, and on the Slavata Palace in Prague. His current research focuses on techniques used in Baroque ceiling painting in Central Europe.
Michaela Šeferisová Loudová studied Art History and History at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno, and Art History at the University of Vienna (Herder Prize Scholarship). She is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Art History at Masaryk University. Her research focuses on Central European Baroque painting, especially wall paintings, with particular attention to their iconography, function, and meaning. She has published numerous articles and studies in Czech and international academic journals. In 2016, she contributed to the Corpus of Baroque Wall Painting in the Bohemian Lands (Benedictines I–II, Prague 2016). She is currently part of the research team working on the project Baroque Ceiling Painting between Theory and Praxis, which examines the creative process of wall painting, including period technical procedures. She is also the author of the monograph In the Name of Wisdom: The Iconography of Baroque Libraries in Moravia in the 18th Century (Prague 2018).
Radka Nokkala Miltová works as an associate professor in the Department of Art History of Masaryk university, Brno (Czech Republic). Her research centres on the history of early modern art in Bohemia and Moravia, especially on iconography and the reception of ancient mythology in art. She has published two monographs and several essays on the early modern art of Central Europe.
Sofia Braga has a degree in History of Art (School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, 1998), a master degree in History of Art, Heritage and Theory of Restoration (School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, 2012) and a Ph.D. in History of Art (School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, 2021), with the thesis: «Behold the talented painter, Master Cyrillo, great in the lesson, and in the style»: Artistic dynamics in the work of Cyrillo Volkmar Machado (1748-1823). She is a collaborative researcher of the “Lisbon Studies Group”, in the Art History Institute, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa - School of Social Sciences and Humanities / IN2PAST - Associate Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Heritage, Arts, Sustainability and Territory. Her research areas focus the late modern and early contemporary mural painting, the fine-arts academism, and the early historiography of art.
Tadeáš Kadlec is a Ph.D. candidate at Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. His doctoral research focuses on the painter Johann Peter Molitor (1702–1757) and the broader contexts of his work in Bohemia and Central Europe. In addition to seventeenth - and eighteenth-century painting, he also works on Baroque architecture. He devoted his M.A. thesis to the Michna Palace in Prague (2021), recently contributed to a monograph on the Slavata Palace in Prague (2024), and has published on the former Czernin Garden Palace in Vienna-Leopoldstadt (2025). He has also taken part in the interdisciplinary research project Baroque Ceiling Painting between Theory and Praxis, led by Martin Mádl (2021–2023). Alongside his academic work, he is a conservator specializing in the restoration of artworks and decorative objects at the General Directorate of the National Heritage Institute in Prague.
Veronika Nagy research area: Baroque wall painting, monument preservation. Teaches theory of monument preservation at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University (Budapest) and the Hungarian University of Fine Arts (Budapest). Member of the research project "Baroque Fresco Painting in Hungary". She participated in the editorial work for the book series "Baroque Fresco Painting in Hungary. Her PhD dissertation (2014) focuses on the fresco work in Sümeg by Franz Anton Maulbertsch. Curator of several exhibitions, including the Maulbertsch exhibition in the Bishop's Palace in Sümeg, which was chosen as The Exhibition of the Year” in Hungary in 2022.
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