Allison Stielau

Biography:

Allison Stielau is Lecturer in Early Modern Art at University College London. She has published on several aspects of early modern European silver and currency, including weight, purity, and the symbolic significance of metallic provenance. Recent interests have turned toward the nineteenth-century reception of historical German silver, including the photography and physical copying of early modern vessels. This year, as a NOMIS Fellow at eikones, Center for the Theory and History of the Image at the University of Basel, she will be completing a manuscript on the fate of silver in the Thirty Years’ War.