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Annemarie Jordan — Síntese Biográfica

Annemarie Jordan, Senior Research Scholar and Curator associated with the Centro de Humanidades (CHAM) in Lisbon and Zurich, Switzerland, since 2010, she obtained her PhD in 1994 from Brown University (Providence, R.I.), with a dissertation on the court, household, and collection of Catherine of Austria, Habsburg princess and queen of Portugal (1507-1578). 

Jordan’s areas of specialisation include Kunstkammers and menageries at the Renaissance courts in Austria, the Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal. In recent years, her research has focused on the court culture, patronage, and collections of Habsburg women, further specialising on the global, cultural, and artistic transfers between Africa, Asia, Brazil, and the Renaissance Habsburg courts.

She is the author of numerous publications (articles, exhibition catalogue essays and contributions in books), including Retrato de Corte em Portugal. O legado de António Moro (1552-1572) (Lisbon, 1994), The Story of Süleyman. Celebrity Elephants and other Exotica in Renaissance Portugal (Zurich-Philadelphia, 2010), and a biography on Queen Catherine of Austria: Catarina de Áustria. A rainha colecionadora, (Lisbon, 2017). With Kate Lowe, Jordan co-edited the award-winning book, The Global City. On the streets of Renaissance Lisbon (Paul Holberton Publishing, London, 2015), granted the “Almirante Teixeira da Mota” prize by the Academia de Marinha in Lisbon in 2016.

Guest curator of the international exhibition: Ivories of Ceylon. Luxury Goods of the Renaissance in 2010 at the Museum Rietberg in Zurich, of the exhibition Echt Tierisch! Die menagerie des Fürsten, Schloss Ambras, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Innsbruck, in 2015, and co-curator, with Kate Lowe, of the international exhibition: Cidade Global / Lisboa no Renacimento / The Global City. Lisbon in the Renaissance, which venued at the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga in Lisbon and the Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis in Porto. Also guest curator, in 2018, with Dagmar Eichberger, of the exhibition at Schloss Ambras in Innsbruck: Women. The Art of Power. Three Women from the House of Habsburg.

From 2008 to 2013, as principal coordinator, Jordan spearheaded the collaborative research project: Hans Khevenhüller, Diplomat and Artistic Agent at the Court of Philip II of Spain, funded by the Getty Foundation in Los Angeles. An edited volume on this ambassador as an art agent, intermediary and dealer, with a foreword by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann and essays by Adriana Concin, Martin Malcolm Elbl, Jorge Fernández-Santos Ortiz-Iribas, Sheila ffolliott, and Shepard Krech III, is expected in 2023 with Paul Holberton Publishing in London. 

La Peregrina. An Extraordinary Renaissance Pearl. A volume edited by Annemarie Jordan, with contributions by Diana Scarisbrick and Hugo Miguel Crespo, tracing the complete documentary and visual history of the Peregrina pearl and other Renaissance pearls belonging to the Portuguese and Spanish royal crown treasuries from 1500 to the present. Expected in 2023 with Paul Holberton Publishing in London. 

Jordan is co-editor with the late John Bury and Fernando António Baptista Pereira of On Portraiture (Do tirar pelo natural), the first published English translation of Francisco de Holanda’s 1549 treatise dedicated to portraiture, which volume includes new research and archival discoveries about the Portuguese painters António de Holanda, Manuel Denis, and Queen Catherine of Austria and her patronage of Francisco - forthcoming 2024 with Paul Holberton in London.

Jordan was decorated in 2011 by the Portuguese government with the Order of Henry the Navigator (Comendadora) for guest curating the 2010 international exhibition in Zurich: Ivories of Ceylon. Luxury Goods of the Renaissance at the Museum Rietberg. She is the author of the exhibition’s scholarly catalogue: Elfenbeine aus Ceylon: Luxusgüter für Katharina von Habsburg (1507-1578).