Professor Dr. Robert Wellington

Biography

Robert Wellington is an Associate Professor in Art History and the Director of the Centre for Art History and Art Theory at the Australian National University. He specializes in material culture, history making, and cross-cultural exchange, with a particular focus on the artistic and cultural exchanges during the reign of Louis XIV. He published a monograph titled 'Antiquarianism: Visual Histories of Louis XIV: Artifacts Future Past' in 2015, which is held in public university libraries around the world. Wellington engages digital methods in art historical research and leads the ARC Discovery Project 'Performing Transdisciplinarity', which is a digital transdisciplinary study of an eighteenth-century songbook. In 2021, he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. He has delivered numerous public lectures and participated in various conferences and symposia, emphasizing the relationship between art and cultural identity. His research interests also encompass topics like digital art history, theories of history and history collecting, antiquarianism, and transcultural aesthetics.

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