Professor Kaufmann teaches and publishes on European art and architecture 1500–1800 in its global context; the theory and practice of world art history; art, science, and humanism; and the geography and historiography of art. He continues to publish on various aspects of northern and central European art and the history of collections. Since 2019 his students have completed dissertations on Henri IV of France and the arts; art and confessionalism in northwestern Germany; painting, drawing, and art theory in 17th-century Sweden; imperial and archducal palaces of the 18th century in Prague, Brussels and Florence; Eastern European hygienic theories and practice c. 1680-1830; luxury scissors and their ornamentation in Early Modern Europe; and the art world of the Hanse 1517-1648. Current doctoral candidates are working on clock-making and European Chinoiserie in Qing China; late 18th-Century Jesuit studies of China; and animal horns as art in Early Modern Kunstkammern.
Read Professor Kaufmann’s full biography on the Department of Art and Archaeology’s website.
