Caroline Stobbe, M.A.

Caroline Stobbe studied primary and secondary school teaching at Leuphana University in Lüneburg and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2018. Since 2018/19, she has been studying art history at the University of Hamburg, working as a student assistant at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, for Prof. Dr. Margit Kern, and in the DFG-Centre for Advanced Studies Imaginaria of Force. From 2019 to 2023, she was also a student board member of the Geschwister Dr. Meyer Foundation. Caroline Stobbe completed her Bachelor of Arts with a thesis on Titian's portrait of Doge Andrea Gritti, which was awarded the Friends and Supporters of the Art History Department's sponsorship prize in 2022. During her subsequent master's studies at the University of Hamburg, she focused on early modern image politics, iconographies of power, and cultural transfer processes in the Mediterranean region. A lecture at the Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani in Venice on antemurale concepts in Venetian art and politics in the 16th and 17th centuries in 2023 ultimately led to her Master's thesis on the forces and mechanics in Martino Rota's allegories of the Battle of Lepanto (1571). Caroline Stobbe completed her master's degree in January 2026 and has been working as a research assistant at the DFG-Centre for Advanced Studies Imaginaria of Force since February 2026.

2026

„A European Bulwark? The Myth of antemurale in 16th and 17th Century Venetian Art“, in: Studiolo #21 [Frühjahr 2026]

2022

„Die TO-Karte des Isidor von Sevilla“, in: Das Ganze der Natur. Kräfte, Ordnungen, Grenzen, Exhibition brochure accompanying the exhibition of the same name at Museum der Natur Hamburg des Leibnitz-Instituts zur Analyse des Biodiversitätswandels (30.11.2022–27.08.2023), pp. 37–40. [unpub.]

 „Olaus Magnus: Carta Marina“, in: Das Ganze der Natur. Kräfte, Ordnungen, Grenzen, Exhibition brochure accompanying the exhibition of the same name at Museum der Natur Hamburg des Leibnitz-Instituts zur Analyse des Biodiversitätswandels (30.11.2022–27.08.2023), pp. 46–51. [unpub.]

• „Ziehen, Hebeln, Drehen: Kräfte und Mechaniken in Martino Rotas Allegorien zur Seeschlacht von Lepanto (1571)“, Early-Career-Conference Violence, Chaos, Destruction? Depictions of War in the Early Modern Period, Warburg Haus Hamburg, 12.12.2025.
• „Von Bellini zu Tizian: Zur Neuinterpretation des venezianischen Dogenporträts im 16. Jahrhundert“, Universität Hamburg, 27.10.2025
• „antemurale-Konzeptionen in Bild und Politik in Venedig im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert“, Studienkurs Mediterrane Kriegskulturen der Vormoderne, Deutschen Studienzentrum Venedig (DSZV), 07.10.2023.
• „Das venezianische Dogenporträt im Wandel: „Andrea Gritti“ von Tizian (1546–1550)“, Förderpreisverleihung, Warburg Haus Hamburg, 01.12.2022.

Forces and Mechanisms in Early Modern Political Allegory

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