
Veronika.Decker(at)oeaw.ac.at
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Veronika Decker is a research associate in the research unit Art History.
Veronika Decker studied art history at the University of Vienna and was a visiting student at the University of Edinburgh. She earned her doctorate in 2013 from the University of Vienna. Her professional experience includes roles at the Warburg Institute in London (2006) and the Department of Northern Renaissance Art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (2009). From 2008 to 2016 she served as a research assistant and lecturer at the University of Vienna’s Department of Art History. Between 2017 and 2020, she worked as a researcher on the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)-funded project The Visual Culture of Representations of Rulers in the Cities of the Habsburg Empire – from Ferdinand I to Joseph I (1526–1711). From 2020 to 2024, she was postdoctoral researcher in another FWF-funded project entitled Illuminated Manuscripts from the High Middle Ages: Completion of the Art Historical Cataloguing of the Special Collection in Graz University Library. In October 2024 she joined the IHB as postdoctoral researcher in the FWF-project Salvation Economics and Media. Constituting Social Spaces via Early Modern Pilgrimage in Lower Austria (SALVEMED).
Period: Middle Ages, Early Modern Period
Area: Habsburg Monarchy, England
Topics: Print culture, book illumination, temporary architecture and urban space, representation of the Habsburg dynasty, art and devotion
Kultur der Herrscherrepräsentation in Städten des habsburgischen Reichs – von Ferdinand I. bis Josef I. (1526–1711)