Aneta Georgievska-Shine
4501 Rosedale Avenue, Bethesda, MD, 20814
(301) 718-8920/ sonce@umd.edu or anetagshine@gmail.com
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park (Northern Baroque with Italian Renaissance as a
secondary area of specialization) 1999
M.A., University of Maryland, College Park (Byzantine Art)
B.A., English Language and Literature, Secondary concentration in South Slavic Languages,
University of Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
TEACHING AND LECTURING EXPERIENCE:
ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
2000 to present: Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland.
Continuous appointment as a part-time lecturer (50%), teaching a range of courses:
Colloquium on museology (original course added to the curriculum)
Reception of classical mythology in the early modern period (original course added to the
curriculum)
Renaissance and baroque self-portraiture (original course added to the curriculum)
Philosophy and methods of art historical research
Seventeenth-century art in the Netherlands
Seventeenth-century art in Italy, France, and Spain
Sixteenth-century Italian art
Fifteenth-century Italian art
Survey of western art
2000 to present: Department of Fine Arts, University of Maryland.
Continuous appointment, part-time, teaching upper-division courses in art theory: both from
historic perspective and in contemporary discourse and practice.
Art and imagination (original course added to the curriculum)
Art theory and contemporary practice: a historical perspective (original course added to the
curriculum)
PUBLICATIONS IN THE AREA OF ACADEMIC SPECIALIZATION:
Books:
Rubens, Velázquez, and the King of Spain (co-authored with Larry Silver), Ashgate, 2014.
http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409462330
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Sample chapter: http://www.ashgate.com/pdf/SamplePages/Rubens-Velazquez-and-the-King-ofSpain-Cont-Intro.pdf
Rubens and the Archaeology of Myth (1610-1620): Visual and Poetic Memory, Ashgate, 2009.
http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754667711
Reviewed:
Renaissance Quarterly, Summer, 2010, 613-615 (Tine Meganck).
Journal of the Northern Renaissance, Spring, 2010 (Jeremy Wood).
http://www.northernrenaissance.org/reviews/Aneta-GeorgievskaShine-emRubens-and-theArchaeology-of-Myth-16101620em--Ashgate-2009brReviewed-by-Jeremy-Wood/38
Historians of Netherlandish Art, Spring, 2011 (Eveliina Juntunen).
http://www.hnanews.org/hna/bookreview/current/vlade2.html
South-Central Renaissance Conference, 2010 (Ellen L. Longsworth).
http://cstl-cla.semo.edu/reinheimer/discoveries/reviews/reviewLongsworth271.shtml
Aurora, The Journal of the History of Art, January, 2010 (Cloutier-Blazzard, Kimberlee A.)
“Enchanting the Intellect and the Eye. A. Georgievska-Shine, Rubens and the Archaeology of
Myth, 1610-1620: Visual and Poetic Memory.”
Peer-reviewed journal articles:
“The Album Amicorum and the Kaleidoscope of the Self: Notes on the Friendship Album
of Jacob Heybloq,” Intersections, Vol. 34, 2014 (in press).
“Titian and the Paradoxes of Love and Art in Venus and Adonis,”Artibus et Historiae, 2012, 97113.
Rubens’s Europa and Titian’s Auctoris Index, Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, 2009,
275-291.
“Rubens and the Tropes of Deceit in Samson and Delilah”, Word and Image, 23/4, 2007.
“Titian, Europa, and the Seal of the Poesie,” Artibus et Historiae, 2007, 177-185.
“From Ovid’s Cecrops to Rubens’s City of God in The Finding of Erichthonius,” The Art
Bulletin, 1/ 2004, 58-74.
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Reviewed, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 1, 2004.
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“Horror and Pity: “Thoughts on the Sense of the Tragic in Rubens’s Hero and Leander and The
Fall of Phaeton,” Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft, 63, 2003, 217-229.
“On Juno and her Semblance in Rubens’s Ixion,” Artibus et Historiae, 46, 2002, 119-127.
Contributions to collections of essays:
“Velázquez and the Philosophers in Torre de la Parada,” in New Approaches to Velazquez,
edited by Giles Knox and Tanya Tiffany, Brepols (in press).
“Velázquez and the Gift of Bacchus,” in Parody and Festivity in the Early Modern Period,
edited by David R. Smith, Ashgate, 2012, 17-37.
“Velázquez and the unfinished story of Arachne,” in The Subject as Aporia in Early Modern Art,
edited by Alexander Nagel and Lorenzo Pericolo, Ashgate, 2010, 179-195.
Reviewed, Renaissance Quarterly, Spring, 2011, 174-6 (Fredrica Jacobs).
Reviews:
Laurinda S. Dixon, The Dark Side of Genius: Melancholic Persona in Art, ca. 1500-1700, State
Park: Penn State University Press, 2013), Journal of the Historians of Netherlandish Art,
(forthcoming)
Harry Berger, Jr., Caterpillage: Reflections on Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still-Life Painting,
New York: Fordham University Press, 2011, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 4, 2011.
Judith Leyster, National Gallery of Art, 2009, Journal of Early Modern Women, Vol. 3, 2010.
Wayne Franits, Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting: Its Stylistic and Thematic Evolution
(2004), Kunstform, historicum.net, December, 2005.
Kristin Lohse Belkin and Fiona Healy. A House of Art: Rubens as Collector (2004), Journal of
the Historians of Netherlandish Art, May, 2005.
Martha Hollander, An Entrance for the Eyes: Space and Meaning in Seventeenth-Century Dutch
Art (2002) College Art Association web reviews, January 2003.
Erik Jan Sluijter, Seductress of Sight (2000), College Art Association web reviews, March-April,
2001.
Francesco Colonna, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, trans. J. Godwin, (London: 1999), College Art
Association web reviews, April, 2000.
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Miscellanea:
Essay on Mario Praz, “On the Parallel of Literature and the Visual Arts,” The A.W. Mellon
Lectures in the Fine Arts: Fifty Years, National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the
Visual Arts, Washington, 2002, No. 16, 87-88.
Adriaen Brouwer: Youth Making a Face, brochure for the focus show at the National Gallery, coauthored with Arthur Wheelock, Jr., National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995, n.p.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS ON MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART:
“Spirit into Matter: Sculpture as a Life-Form,” Emilie Brzezinski: The Lure of the Forest,
New York, 2014
“Joan Danziger,” review, Katzen Art Center, Sculpture Magazine, March 2013
“Rachel Rotenberg,” review, Hilyer Art Place, Sculpture Magazine, December 2012
“Foon Sham: Crafting Dialogues,” essay, Sculpture Magazine, November 2012
Contributor to ArtUS, The Foundation for International Art Criticism:
Exhibition reviews: Guillermo Kuitca, Hirshhorn Museum (2011), Yves Klein, Hirshhorn
Museum (2010), Arshile Gorky, Philadelphia Museum of Art (2010), William Kentridge,
MOMA (2010), Anne Truitt, Hirshhorn Museum (2010), The Meyerhoff Collection, NGA
(2010), Francis Bacon, Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y. (2009), Cézanne and Beyond,
Philadelphia Museum of Art (2009), Ori Gersht, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
Washington, D.C. (2009), Allegory of Vanities, Erasmus House, Anderlecht (2008),
Unmonumental, New Museum of Contemporary Art (2008), Yuriko Yamaguchi, University of
Maryland Art Gallery (2008), Sigmar Polke and Chen Zhen, Vienna MUMOK/ Kunshalle
(2007), Contemporary Iranian Photography, University of Maryland Art Gallery (2007), Jasper
Johns: An Allegory of Painting, National Gallery of Art, Washington (2007), The Uncertainty of
Objects and Ideas, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (2006), Eric
Sandberg, Conner Contemporary, Washington, D.C. (2006), Anselm Kiefer, Hirshhorn Museum
and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (2006), Hiroshi Sugimoto, Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (2006), and Wayne Gonzales, Conner Contemporary,
Washington, D.C. (2006).
Contributions to exhibition catalogues:
Kupka/ Mondrian, catalogue essay, Kampa Museum, Prague, 2007.
Warhol and the Spectacle of Death, catalogue essay, Kampa Museum, Prague, 2007.
Emilie Benes Brzezinski, catalogue essay, University of Virginia Art Museum, 2003.
“Localización de móviles gráficos de Kupka: En busca de la trama de la natureleza,” in Kupka:
Localización de móviles gráficos 1912-13, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, 1998, 25-39.
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Frantishek Kupka: From the Collection of Jan and Meda Mladek, Czech Museum of Applied
Arts, Prague, 1996 (listed as a collaborator of Meda Mladek in the conceptual organization of the
exhibition and the writing of the catalogue).
Contributions to peer-reviewed edited volumes:
“Annunciations out of the Dark: A View of Macedonian Art Today," Cross Currents, A
Yearbook of Central European Culture, 12, Yale University Press, 1993, 237-243.
“Biafra - the Zagreb Art of Expression,” Cross Currents, A Yearbook of Central European
Culture, 11, Yale University Press, 1992, 245-249.
WORK IN PROGRESS:
“Velázquez, the Rokeby Venus, and Gracian,” essay for a peer-reviewed volume edited by
Andaleeb Banta, scheduled for publication in 2014
“The Album Amicorum as a Kaleidoscope of the Self,” essay for the peer-reviewed journal,
Intersections, No. 34, edited by Walter Melion and Bret Rothstein, scheduled for publication in
2014
REFEREE: The Art Bulletin, International Journal of the Classical Tradition, Renaissance
Quarterly, Ashgate Publishing
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE - MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART:
2013: Guest curator, Color This Time: Recent Photographs of Peter Karp, Studio Gallery,
Washington D.C.
2010: Guest curator, Compressed Narratives, Gateway Art Center, Brentwood, Maryland (Aniko
Makranczy, Juan Rojo Acebes, Peter Gordon).
2007: Guest curator, Andy Warhol: Disaster Relics, Kampa Museum, Prague.
2007: Curatorial consultant, Kupka/ Mondrian, Kampa Museum, Prague.
2004: Guest curator, Indonesian art from the World Bank art collection, the World Bank,
Washington, D.C.
2000: Curatorial advisor, Historic Photographs of the Balkans by Kurt Wentzel (1905-1908), The
World Bank, Washington, D.C.
2000: Curatorial advisor, contemporary Macedonian art, the World Bank, Washington, D.C.
2000: Curatorial advisor, contemporary art from Azerbaijan, the World Bank, Washington.
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CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE – OLD MASTER PAINTING:
2000-2001: Research Associate, Catalogues of the Collection, Department of Northern Baroque
Painting, National Gallery of Art, Washington.
1995: Research Assistant, National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Preparation of a focus show on Adriaen Brouwer (September 1995 - February 1996)
1994-1995: National Gallery Museum Fellowship, Department of Northern Baroque Painting:
creation of the Dutch/Flemish Cabinet Galleries, focus show on Adriaen Brower, exhibitions on
Johannes Vermeer and Jan Steen.
FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS:
National Endowment for Humanities Fellowship, “Researching Early Modern Books and
Manuscripts,” New York City, 2013.
Kress Foundation travel grant, Historians of Netherlandish Art, Antwerp (Workshop session
chair/ presenter), 2002.
College Art Association travel grant, Annual Conference in Chicago, February 2001.
Kress Foundation Post-Doctoral Curatorial Fellowship, National Gallery of Art, Washington,
D.C., 2000-1.
Adjunct Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence, School of Area Studies, Foreign Service
Institute, Arlington, VA, 2000.
Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Robert H. and Clarice Smith Pre-Doctoral
Fellowship, National Gallery of Art, 1998-9.
International Congress of the History of Art (CIHA), travel award, Amsterdam, 1996.
Museum Fellowship, department of Northern Baroque Painting, National Gallery of Art, 1994-5.
National Gallery of Art Graduate Lecturing Fellowship: Public lectures on various subjects
related to the permanent collection, 1993-4.
PARTICIPATION IN SCHOLARLY CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA:
Renaissance Society of America, NYC, March 2014. Session: Dialectics of faith and Doubt in
Seventeenth-century Spain, co-organizer and chair
Renaissance Society of America, NYC, March 2014. Ille hic est… Juan de Pareja and the Limits
of Knowledge
Renaissance Society of America, Washington D.C., 2012. Session: The Long Shadow of the
Venetian Cinquecento. Velazquez, Rokeby Venus, and Gracian.
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Renaissance Society of America, Montreal, 2011. Co-organizer and chair of a session: Versions
of Realism in Seventeenth-century Art
Renaissance Society of America, Montreal, 2011. Session: Representations of Nature in
Seventeenth-century Art. “Rubens and the Savage Eloquence of Painting.”
Renaissance Society of America, Los Angeles, CA, 2009. Session: Caravaggio: Reflections and
Refractions. “Caravaggio, Velázquez, and the Substance of Bacchus”
Barnard Conference, 2008. Representation of time in the Renaissance: “Titian’s Venus and
Adonis at the Melancholy Portal of Eros”
Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, Illinois, 2008. Session: New Approaches to
Velázquez. “Velázquez and the Philosophers in Torre de la Parada”
Renaissance Society of America, Miami, Florida, 2007. Session: The Subject as Aporia in Early
Modern Art. “Velázquez and the unfinished story of Arachne”
Co-organizer, International Conference of the Historians of Netherlandish Art, Baltimore/
Washington, November, 2006.
Moderator, Gerard ter Borch Study Day, 2005, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2005.
Moderator, Public Symposium on Gerard ter Borch, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2004.
Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, San Antonio, Texas, 2002. “Some Notes on the Sense of
the Tragic in Rubens’ Fall of Phaeton”
Historians of Netherlandish Art, Antwerp, Belgium, March 2002 Co-chair of a workshop session:
Rubens’ approach to allegories
College Art Association, Chicago, 2001. Classical Mythology in the Early Modern Period:
“Observations on Rubens’ invention in the Finding of Erichthonius.”
Third Interdisciplinary Conference on the Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena, Palermo,
Italy, 2001, Art and Science: “Rubens and the Seductions of the Rainbow.”
Thirtieth International Congress of the History of Art (CIHA), London, 2000. Session: Visual
Narrative Time (poster presenter)
New Scholars/New Ideas Symposium, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia,
2000. “On Juno and her Double in Rubens’ Ixion.”
Mid-Atlantic Symposium, National Gallery of Art, 1996. “Vermeer’s Mirrors.”
Interdisciplinary Symposium on Dutch Art and Culture, Hofstra University, Hempstead, Long
Island, 1995. “Vermeer and the Allegory of Faith.”
Southeastern College Art Conference, Washington D.C., 1995. “Levels of Allegory in Rubens'
Juno and Argus.”
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SELECTED LECTURES IN MUSEUMS AND NON-ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS:
The Byzantine Empire and its Legacy, day-long seminar, The Resident Associates Program,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 2014.
Northern Renaissance Art and Philosophy, day-long seminar, The Resident Associates Program,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 2013
Touched by the Gods: Renaissance Art and Classical Mythology, four lectures, The Resident
Associates Program, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 2013
Life, Interrupted: Still Life Paintings in the Baltimore Museum of Art, invited lecture, Baltimore
Museum of Art, 2013.
Portraits in the Jacobs Wing, invited lecture, Baltimore Museum of Art, 2013.
Poetry and Painting: A Brief History of an Idea, invited lecture, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,
Richmond, Virginia, 2013.
Envisioning the African in Early Modern Spain, invited lecture, The Walters Art Museum, 2013.
The Artistic Revolutions of 1912: Collage to Abstraction, day-long seminar, The Resident
Associates Program, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 2012.
Art Meets Literature: An Undying Love Affair, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond,
Virginia, 2012.
Joseph Cornell, day-long seminar, The Resident Associates Program, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C., 2011.
Versions of Modernism, from Picasso to Pollock, The Resident Associates Program, day-long
seminar, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 2010.
Sacred Mysteries in Images of Daily Life, two-lecture seminar, The Resident Associates
Program, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., May, 2010.
Caravaggio at Four Hundred, four-lecture seminar, The Resident Associates Program,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., April, 2010.
Rembrandt and the Art of Portraiture in the Early Modern Period, invited lecture, Baltimore
Museum of Art, 2010.
Modernism through the Eyes of the Moderns: Poets and Critics, series of five lectures for the Art
Seminar Group, Baltimore, 2010.
Michelangelo and the Imperfect Divine, five-lecture course, The Resident Associates Program,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 2009.
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The Colors of Venice: from the Domes of St. Marco to Titian’s Sunsets, Day-long seminar, The
Resident Associates Program, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 2009.
Modernist milestones, from Courbet to the New York School: six-lecture series, Art Seminar
Group, Baltimore, 2009.
Aspects of Modernism in the Visual Arts, invited lecture, Baltimore Museum of Art, 2009.
Andy Warhol at the Baltimore Museum of Art, , invited lecture, Baltimore Museum of Art, 2008.
The Sermon and the Jest in Northern Renaissance Art, Art Seminar Group, Baltimore, 2008.
Croatia: Crossroads of Culture – Day-long seminar, The Resident Associates Program,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 2007. Co-teaching with Dr. Hugh L. Agnew, Elliott
School of International Affairs, George Washington University.
The Poetic Texture of Van Dyck’s Rinaldo and Armida, invited lecture, Baltimore Museum of
Art, 2007.
The Private and the Public Self in the Dutch Golden Age, day-long seminar, The Resident
Associates Program, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 2007.
Artistic Confluences in Europe and the US, Arlington Arts Center, 2007.
Andy Warhol: Disaster Relics, invited lecture, Kampa Museum, Prague, 2007.
Old master paintings at the Royal Netherlands Embassy, The Royal Netherlands Embassy,
Washington D.C., 2007.
Images resistant to Words, invited lecture, Kreeger Museum, Washington, 2007.
North-South Dialogues in Renaissance Painting, invited lecture, Baltimore Museum of Art,
2007.
Grand European Museums and their Narratives, lecture series, The Resident Associates
Program, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 2007.
Artistic Encounters: On Becoming a Master, lecture series, The Resident Associates Program,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 2006.
Rembrandt and the Mysteries of the Mind, benefit lecture for the Library of San Miguel de
Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, 2006.
A version of this lecture was also presented to the Associates of the American Foreign Service
Worldwide, U.S. Department of State, 2006.
Rembrandt: between the Public and the Private Sphere, invited lecture, Baltimore Museum of
Art, 2006.
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A Room for the World: The Origins and Evolution of the Museum in Early Modern Europe, the
Contemporary Club, Baltimore, April, 2006.
Dutch paintings, Royal Netherlands Embassy, Washington D.C. 2006 (Fundraiser for the
National Symphony Orchestra)
Rembrandt after Four Hundred Years, seminar, The Resident Associates Program, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, D.C., 2006.
Picasso’s Encounters with the Past, invited lecture, Baltimore Museum of Art, 2006.
The Sacred and the Profane in the Renaissance, six-week seminar, Resident Associates Program,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 2006.
Minimalism and Conceptual Art, invited lecture, Baltimore Museum of Art, 2005.
Artistic Originality and Imitation: Historical Perspective, eight-lecture series, the Art Seminar
Group, Baltimore (individual sessions on Michelangelo, Titian, Caravaggio, Rubens, Rembrandt,
Velazquez, Manet, Cezanne, Picasso), 2005.
Artistic Exchanges between East and West during the Renaissance, teacher-training session,
Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, 2005.
Northern Renaissance Painting, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, 2005.
Artistic Centers of the Netherlands, four week seminar, The Resident Associates Program,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 2005.
Dutch and Flemish Paintings from the Baltimore Museum of Art, invited lecture, Baltimore
Museum of Art, 2004.
Artistic exchanges between Northern Europe and the Islamic world, National Gallery of Art,
Washington, D.C., 2004.
Titian and the Venetian Renaissance, lecture series, the Iliad Society, Baltimore, 2004.
Rubens’ Samson and Delilah, Works in Progress Series, National Gallery of Art, Washington,
2004.
Johannes Vermeer, day-long seminar, The Resident Associates Program, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C., 2004.
The New York School Painters in the Baltimore Museum of Art, invited lecture, Baltimore
Museum of Art, 2004.
Northern Renaissance Art, day-long seminar, The Resident Associates Program, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, D.C., 2003.
Italian Renaissance paintings in the Baltimore Museum of Art, invited lecture, Baltimore
Museum of Art, 2004.
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Twentieth-century art, theory and practice, lecture series, the Art Seminar Group, Baltimore,
2003.
Guest Lecturer on the history of the visual arts of South Eastern Europe at the School of Area
Studies, Foreign Service Institute, Department of State, 1996-2000.
LANGUAGE COMPETENCIES:
Fluent in English, Macedonian (native) and Serbo-Croatian; reading proficiency of art-historical
literature in French, Dutch, Russian, and Czech; limited reading proficiency in German, Italian,
Spanish, Latin.
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