Dr Mara Hofmann, Research Assistant

http://www.proms.ac.uk/
mara.hofmann(at)sas.ac.uk

Education

Dr Mara Hofmann studied at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and at the Freie Universität Berlin where she gained an MA in Art History and German Literature in 1998, and a PhD in Art History in 2002 (see Jean Poyer: Das Gesamtwerk, Turnhout: Brepols, 2004).

Employment

In 2003/04 she worked as a Feodor-Lynen-Scholar (Post-Doc) of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes in Paris. In 2005, she was hired by the University of London, Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies, to work on the British Library online Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts. She joined the National Gallery (London) as a Mellon Fellow in 2007, where she developed the Raphael Research Resource. In 2010 she started working at the Warburg Institute to research the production and reading of polyphonic music sources. Her research interests and publications focus on manuscript illumination in France and Flanders and developments in the mise-en-page from the late fourteenth to the early sixteenth century.

Publications

BOOKS

- Jean Poyer: Das Gesamtwerk (Turnhout, 2004), 210 pp. and 253 figs.
Reviewed by Roger Wieck in Bulletin du bibliophile, 1 (2008), 188-90.
Reviewed by François Avril in Art de l’Enluminure, 16 (2006), 92-94.
- Philippe de Mazerolles: Ein unbekanntes Stundenbuch aus Brügge, Illuminationen: Studien und Monographien, in collaboration with Ina Nettekoven, ed. by Heribert Tenschert, Cat. 49 (Rotthalmünster, 2004), 108 pp. with 14 pls in colour and 57 figs.
Reviewed by Albert Châtelet in Art de l’Enluminure, 11 (2005), 76-78.
- Hortus Eystettensis. Studien zur Entstehung des Kupferstichwerks und zum Exemplar des Andrea Vendramin, in collaboration with Caroline Zöhl (s.l., 2003), 366 pp. with 61 figs. http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/volltexte/2010/963/

CONTRIBUTIONS TO CATALOGUES AND DICTIONARIES

- L'après-Fouquet, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours (Tours, 2012), entries on Jean Poyer [forthcoming].
- Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, 'Mazerolles, Phillipe de' and ‘Poyer, Jean’ [forthcoming].
- Les Enluminures du Louvre. Moyen Âge et Renaissance, exh. cat. (Paris, 2011), 184-86 (Jean Poyer), 186 and 190-92 (Jean Bourdichon), 196-200 (Maître de Spencer 6).
- Entries on Provenances for paintings related to the National Gallery’s paintings by Raphael (2009): http://cima.ng-london.org.uk/documentation
- Entries on Provenances and Framing Histories for the National Gallery’s ten paintings by Raphael (2008): http://cima.ng-london.org.uk/documentation
- Horae B.M.V. 158 Stundenbuchdrucke der Sammlung Bibermühle 1490-1550: Graphik, Illumination und Einbandkunst in Frankreich um 1500, 3 vols, as co-author for catalogue entries, ed. by Heribert Tenschert and Ina Nettekoven (Rotthalmünster, 2003), 1335 pp. with about 600 figs.
Reviewed by Nicolas Barker in The Book Collector, 53, 3 (2004), 335-52.
- Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, vol. 43 (Leipzig, 2004),‘Fouquet, Jean’, 96-103, and ‘François (Maître)’, 513-15.

ARTICLES

- ‘Matteo da Milano and the Hours of Dionora of Urbino’, in Le livre d’heures revisité / The Book of Hours Re-examined (Turnhout, 2011) [forthcoming].
- 'I miniatori e i loro metodi di lavoro visti attraverso i manoscritti incompleti: il caso del Libro d’Ore di Carlo di Francia (Parigi, Bibliothèque Mazarine, ms. 473)', in Come nasce un manoscritto miniato (Modena, 2010), 161-166.
- ‘Miniaturen in Inkunabeln: Die Grandes Heures des Pariser Verlegers Anthoine Vérard’, Wiener Jahrbuch (2010), 183-203.
- ‘Jean Poyer et Jean Bourdichon comme peintres de retables à Tours’, in Art Sacré 24 : L’Europe des Retables, Actes du Colloque du Mans, 13-16 octobre 2004, vol. 1 (2007), 190-205.
- ‘Haincelin de Haguenau et l’acanthe à Paris’, in Quand la peinture était dans les livres, Mélanges en l’honneur de François Avril (Turnhout, 2007), 99-109.
- 'French Illuminated Manuscripts' (2006) http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/TourFrIntro.asp
- ‘Jean Poyer im Spektrum seiner Auftraggeberschaft’, in Die Hofkultur in Frankreich und in Europa im Spätmittelalter, Passagen, ed. by Christian Freigang and Jean-Claude Schmitt (Berlin, 2005), 123-38.
- ‘Auf dem Weg zum Hortus Eystettensis – Florilegien des 16. Jahrhunderts und zugehöriges Vorlagenmaterial‘, Historischer Verein Eichstätt: Sammelblatt, 97 (2004), 107-38.
- ‘Le Maître des Missels della Rovere et les ateliers tourangeaux’, Art de l’Enluminure, 6 (2003), 34-60.
- ‘L’héritage de Jean Fouquet dans l’œuvre de Jean Poyer’, Dossier de l’Art (2003), 58-71.

REVIEWS AND PROJECT PRESENTATIONS

- ‘Très riches heures de Champagne’, Bulletin du bibliophile, 1 (2009), 173-76.
- ‘Il Mellon Digital Documentation Project: I dieci quadri di Raffaello della National Gallery di Londra’, Kermes: La rivista del restauro 71 (2009), 19-21.
- ‘Patrons, Authors and Workshops: Books and Book Production in Paris around 1400’, The British Library Journal (2008), 349-50.
- ‘Der Digital Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts der British Library, London’, in Katalogisierung mittelalterlicher Handschriften in internationaler Perspektive (Wiesbaden, 2008), 139-43.
- ‘Un Livre d’Heures Nancéien: Le Manuscrit des Fours’, Bulletin du bibliophile, 2 (2005), 374-75.
- ‘Jean Fouquet: peintre et enlumineur du XVe siècle’, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 24 March – 22 June 2003, Bulletin du bibliophile, 2 (2003), 408-13.
- ‘L’enluminure en France au temps de Jean Fouquet’, Chantilly, Musée Condé, 26 March – 22 June 2003, Bulletin du bibliophile, 2 (2003), 414-17.
- ‘Frei über Internet recherchierbare Datenbanken zu illuminierten Handschriften Frankreichs’, Kunstchronik, 7 (2003), 382-83.

EDITIONS

- Treasures in Focus: The Bedford Hours (London, 2007).
- Quand la peinture était dans les livres, Mélanges en l’honneur de François Avril, as co-editor with Caroline Zöhl (Turnhout, 2007), 503 pp.
Reviewed by Albert Châtelet in Art de l’Enluminure, 23 (2007), 68-69.
- Von Kunst und Temperament, Festschrift zu Ehren von Eberhard König, as co-editor with Caroline Zöhl (Turnhout, 2007), 334 pp.
- Lacona I: Lasers in the Conservation of Artworks, as collaborator, ed. by Wolfgang Kautek and Eberhard König (Vienna, 1997), 118 pp.

TRANSLATIONS

- Thomas Kren, Single Leaves from the J. Paul Getty Museum (Lucerne, 2009) [translated from English to German].
- Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry, reproduction numérique intégrale du manuscrit, avec commentaires et de nombreuses fonctionnalités conviviales, trilingue: français, anglais, allemand, édité par la Réunion des musées nationaux 2004 [translated from French to German with Gabriele Bartz].
- Bernard Bousmanne, Les Heures Noires / Das Schwarze Stundenbuch (Lucerne, 2001), 190 pp. [translated from French to German].
- 1989 – Berliner Mauer. Kunst für ein Europa im Aufbruch. Sammlung Sylvestre Verger, Paris, exhibition catalogue (Cologne, 2001), 120 pp. [translated from French to German with Katja Meister].
- Roger Wieck, The Prayer Book of Anne de Bretagne / Das Gebetbuch der Anne de Bretagne (Lucerne, 1999), 239 pp. [translated from English to German with Caroline Zöhl].

CD-ROMS

- Gemäldegalerie Berlin. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, series DISKUS (Munich 1998) [realisation with Gabriele Bartz, Maximilian Benker, Andreas Bienert, Katja Hesch, Kathrin Höltge, Marion Kaminsky, Carolin Quermann, Julia Schewski, Lutz Stöppler].