Humanities and Social Sciences

History Program

Staff Profiles

Dr Lisa Beaven

Lecturer Room: David Myer Building East, Room E101 Tel: 9479 2380 Fax: 9479 1942 Email: l.beaven@latrobe.edu.au Qualifications:BA Canterbury NZ, MA Canterbury NZ, PGDip Art Curatorship Melb, PhD Melb

Lisa Beaven joined the School of Visual Arts and Design in Bendigo in 2003 as  lecturer in Art and Visual Culture. Since 2007 she has been teaching at both the Bendigo and Bundoora campuses and is now lecturer in Art History in the History Program at Bundoora. She has also taught at the University of Melbourne and Auckland University. She is the 2008 Trendall Fellow at the British School at Rome.

isa’s research interests include the art patronage and the history of collecting in seventeenth century Rome, landscape painting, antiquarianism and social history, travel and theoretical frameworks for place-based research.

Research Projects

• Landscapes of Death: Landscape painting, malaria and ecology in the Roman Campagna
  
• Artistic exchanges between Rome and Madrid in the seventeenth century (with Dr José-Luis Colomer)
  
• The Patronage networks of Claude Lorrain (with Dr Helen Langdon)
  Travel and the built environment of Rome (with Dr Joan Barclay-Lloyd)

Research Publications

Lisa has published widely on aspects of patronage and collecting in early modern Europe. Recent publications include:

• ‘Cardinal Camillo Massimo as art agent of the Altieri’, in Art and Identity in Early Modern Rome, M. Bury and J. Burke (eds), Ashgate, 2008, pp. 171-187
  
• ‘Someone to watch over me: The Guardian Angel as Superhero in seventeenth century Rome’, in Wendy Haslem, Chris Mackie & Angela Ndalianis (eds.), Super/Heroes: An Anthology, , New Academia Press, Washington, 2007. ISBN 0-9777908-4-3. Chapter 18, pp. 251-261.
  
• ‘Claude Lorrain’s Harbour Scenes: sun, science and the theatre in the Barberini years’, in David R. Marshall (ed.), Art, Site and Spectacle: Studies in Early Modern Visual Culture, Melbourne, Fine Arts Network,2007, pp. 147-161.
  
• ‘Cardinal Camillo Massimo and Claude Lorrain: Landscape and the construction of identity in seicento Rome’, Storia dell’Arte, no. 112, April 2006 pp. 23-36.

Conference Papers

• ‘Francesco da Hollanda, Camillo Massimo and the Domus Aurea’, conference paper, international interdisciplinary conference ‘Before and After Palladio’s Rome’, 20-22 February, 2008, British School at Rome, Rome, Italy
  
• ‘Claude Lorrain and La Crescenza: Landscape, ecology and climate change in the Roman Campagna’, conference paper, international interdisciplinary conference, ‘Landscape and Environment 1480-1750’, Early Modern Research Group, Reading University, 14-16 July, Reading University, United Kingdom

Graduate Supervision Areas and Topics

• MA in Visual Arts (graphic design)
  
• Phd in Visual Arts (theory)
  
• Phd in Visual Arts
  
• Phd in Art History
  
• Phd in Art History
  
• Phd in Art History
  
• Phd in Art History

Research Grants

2007-9 Australian Research Council Linkage Grant: ‘Engaging with Place: an interdisciplinary framework for place-based research’(principal: Dr Susan Broomhall, Associate Professor of History, University of Western Australia, in conjunction with Australians Studying Abroard (Director= Dr Chris Wood). Collaboration with Dr Joan Barclay-Lloyd to work on tourism, pilgrimage and the built environment of Rome.