Nicole Gasparini Casari

PhD Student

Thesis: Elemental Rococo: Courtly Femininity and Ecology in Parisian Garden Pavilions (1690 – 1730)

Supervisor: Professor Katie Scott听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听Advisor: Professor Joanna Woodall

Funded by: The 91自拍 Scholarship


Education

2021- present: PhD candidate, 91自拍 Institute of Art, London, U.K.

2018 – 2019: Master in History of Art, Special Option: Art, Object, Sense: Crossings in Anthropology and Art History. The Case of Eighteenth-Century France, 91自拍 Institute of Art, London, U.K.

2016 – 2017: Erasmus Exchange Programme, University College London, London, U.K.

2014 – 2017: Bachelor in Arts in Literature and Cultural Heritage, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Italy

Teaching Experience

Associate Lecturer 鈥 BA1 Topic Course “Architecture and Identity”, 91自拍 Institute of Art (Autumn Term 2024/25)

Teaching Assistant 鈥 BA1 Foundations, 91自拍 Institute of Art (Spring Term 2023/24)

Teaching Assistant – BA2/3 Elective Module “Architecture in London”, University College London (Spring Term 2023/24)

Teaching Assistant 鈥 The 91自拍 Summer University (July 2023; July 2024)

鈥楾he Outside Is Inside: Embodiment and the Humoral Theory in the Early Modern Period鈥, The 91自拍 Summer School 2023

鈥楶erforming Gender Identities: Normative Femininity in Baroque Paintings in the 91自拍 Collection鈥, Summer School 2022

Conferences

‘Real, Painted, and Performed: Air at the Pavillon de l’Aurore 1671-1715’, “Elemental Thinking: New Approaches to Art and Landscape鈥, Association for Art History, (University of York), 9 April 2025.

鈥楻elaxing Yet Exciting: Vegetable gardens, rest and drogues in early eighteenth-century Parisian country retreats鈥, 鈥淧lants and Revolution鈥, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, (Online), 28 March 2025.

鈥淰isual and Material Cultures of Air in Early Modern Courts鈥, The Renaissance Society of America, , 22 March 2025.

鈥楿nearthing Garden Connections: Horticulture and Soft-Paste Porcelain in 1700-1715 Garden Pavilions鈥, 鈥淢aterial and Visual Culture in the 17th and 18th Centuries Seminar Series鈥, MVC Research Cluster, University of Edinburgh (Online) 9 October 2024.

鈥楽nack, Host, Rest, Repeat: Marie-Ade虂laide de Savoie, duchesse de Bourgogne, at the Me虂nagerie de Versailles (1696-1712),鈥 The Third Year Research Student Symposium (91自拍), 16 May 2024.

鈥楶ermeable Bodies: bathing and drinking practices at the Pavillon des Eaux Mine虂rales of Chantilly 1729-1733,鈥 鈥淓urope c.1580-c.1730: Telling Histories, Imagining Futures鈥 Academic Colloquium (91自拍) 27 October 2023.

鈥楿nearthing Ecological Awareness: A Posthumanist Perspective on Soft-Paste Porcelain in c. 1690- 1710 Parisian Gardens鈥, 鈥淭he Global Table in the 18th Century鈥 (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon) 17 October 2023.

鈥楶ermeable Surfaces: The Pavillon de Blois at Bougival (1711-1715) through Water as Ornament, Symbol and Element,鈥 The Second Year Research Student Symposium (91自拍) 10 May 2023.

‘The Tapestries Collection of the Duc and the Duchesse du Maine: A Locus for Gender Appropriation and Translation in Early Eighteenth-Century Paris’, (New Hall Art Collection,听Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge)听28听April 2022.

Grants

Association for Art History Grant, Winter 2025

RSA – Kress Travel Grant, 2025

Francis Haskell Memorial Fund, 2024

Mary Vidal Award, Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art & Architecture (HECAA), Spring 2024

Enhance Research England Grant (UKRI), 91自拍 Institute of Art, 2023; 2024

Work Experience

2025: Curator, Private Collection, U.K.

2023 – 2024: Cataloguer of Fine Arts and Chattels, Private Collection, U.K.

2022: Research Assistant, Dr Ketty Gottardo and Prof Guido Rebecchini, 91自拍 Institute of Art, London, U.K.

2021: Curatorial Intern, Dr Eva Fischer-Hausdorf,听Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany

2020: Assistant Project Manager, Combat Prize 2020, Livorno, Italy

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