Participant Info
- First Name
- Chassica
- Last Name
- Kirchhoff
- Country
- United States
- State
- MI
- ckirchhoff@dia.org
- Affiliation
- Detroit Institute of Arts
- Website URL
- https://detroitarts.academia.edu/ChassicaKirchhoff
- Keywords
- armor, arms and armor, art history, cultural history, medieval and early modern art, Habsburg Studies, Central Europe, northern Renaissance, material culture, visual culture
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
An art historian specializing in the history, meaning, and representation of European armor and the roles of martial material culture within the visual and intellectual landscapes of the late medieval & early modern periods. My intermedial and interdisciplinary scholarship intersects with wide-ranging research, teaching, and curatorial experience.
- Recent Publications
The Thun-Hohenstein Album: Cultures of Remembrance in a Paper Armory, (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2023).
“Embodying the Edges of Empires: Armors in the Hungarian Style for Habsburg and Ottoman Courts,” The Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 97 (2023).
with Megan Reddicks Pignataro and Livingston Bailin, “Divesting/Dismembering: Storage Findings in the Disassembly of Armor,” The Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 97 (2023).
with Becca Goodman and Ellen Hansbach-Bernal, “Ein Thüringisches Marienretabel am Detroit Institute of Arts. Eine erste Bestandsaufnahme,” Arbeitshefte der Thüringischen Landesamtes für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie, Neue Folge 55 (2023.)
“Silver-Pommeled Swords and Old Italian Cannonballs: The Martial Collections of Paulus Hector Mair” in Martial Culture in Medieval Towns, edited by Regula Schmid, Daniel Jaquet, and Iason- Eleftherios Tzouriadis (Basel: Schwabe, 2023).
“The Martial Maid: Armoured Women in the Early Modern Imaginary,” in Iron Men: Fashion in Steel, edited by Stefan Krause (Vienna: Kunsthistorisches Museum, 2022).
“Memories in Steel and Paper: A Spectacular Armor and its Depictions in Early Modern Augsburg,” Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture Online, 4: Objekte der Erinnerung (August 2019), 26-57. https://memo.imareal.sbg.ac.at/wsarticle/memo/2019-kirchhoff-memories-in-steel-and-paper/
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- www.instagram.com/chassicafelese/
- Country Focus
- Holy Roman Empire
- Expertise by Geography
- Germany, Netherlands, Western Europe
- Expertise by Chronology
- Medieval, Pre-17th century, Early Modern
- Expertise by Topic
- Art & Architectural History, Gender, Material Culture, Military, Museums, Urban History
