Publication Prize
Marieke von Bernstorff
The Bibliotheca Hertziana Publication Prize for outstanding art historical studies has been awarded annually since 2018. As a research funding tool, it serves to draw the attention of external scholars to both the Institute’s publication series and its research work. Internal fellows can also apply with their manuscripts for the grant.
Award-winning manuscripts are accepted into one of the Institute’s publication series without any financial contribution on the part of the author. The prize provides for comprehensive scientific editing; in addition, an external winner of this prize may be offered a research fellowship of up to three months in Rome for the purpose of revising the manuscript for publication.
Completed research projects in the history of Italian (but not only Italian) art or architecture from late antiquity to the present day may be submitted. Projects related to the Institute’s research priorities are particularly welcome. All submitted manuscripts will undergo an internal review process, with the final round additionally subject to an external review process. The following works were awarded in the reporting period:
2023
Federica De Giambattista
Ludwig Pollak (1868–1943) e il suo interesse per le opere d’arte medievale. Un protagonista del collezionismo e del mercato dell’arte nella Roma postunitaria
2022
Philippa Sissis
Zwischen Artefakt und Produkt. Das humanistische Schriftbild in den Kopien Poggio Bracciolinis in Florenz um 1400
2021
David Zagoury
The Wild Brush: Fantasia in Sixteenth-Century Italian Art and Theory
2020 -> 2022
Marco Brunetti (2020 awardee; published in 2022)
A Vocabulary of the Antique. An Archaeological Reconstruction and the Reception of the Volta Dorata in the Domus Aurea of Nero, Cinisello Balsamo 2022 (Studi della Bibliotheca Hertziana 15)
In the reporting period, the following publications received an external award:
2023
Tobias C. Weißmann, Kunst, Klang, Musik. Die Festkultur der europäischen Mächte im barocken Rom -> Awarded the Hans Janssen Prize (2022) by the Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, the Rudolf Arnheim Prize (2019) by the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Premio Daria Borghese, Rome (2023).