Research Interests
Art HistoryDr Lisa Mansfield
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities
College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities
Lisa is an art historian specialising in early modern art, particularly northern Europe during the sixteenth century. Her core areas of research investigate Renaissance portraiture, including courtly image-making practices and representations of gender and power, humanism and the visual arts, images of warfare, and intersections between early modern European art and natural history.
Northern Renaissance art and visual culture (1400s-1600s)
Portraiture
Art and war
Art and polymathic creativity
| Date | Position | Institution name |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 - ongoing | Senior Lecturer | University of Adelaide |
| 2018 - 2020 | Head of Department | University of Adelaide |
| 2008 - 2017 | Lecturer | University of Adelaide |
| Date | Type | Title | Institution Name | Country | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Fellowship | Renaissance Society of America (RSA) Samuel H. Kress Fellowship | University of Toronto | Canada | 5,000 |
| 2009 | Teaching Award | Certificate for Outstanding Student Feedback in Learning and Teaching | University of Adelaide | - | - |
| Language | Competency |
|---|---|
| French | Can read |
| Date | Institution name | Country | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| The University of Melbourne | Australia | PhD |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Lane, S., & Mansfield, L. (2025). The <i>Sarasa Zufu</i> : an eighteenth-century Japanese manual for creating chintz. Japan Forum, 37(3), 1-27. |
| 2022 | Mansfield, L., Stanhope, J., & Weinstein, P. (2022). Pride, Pain, and Punishment: Cacofonix as a model of resilience in The Adventures of Asterix. International Journal of Comic Art, 24(1). |
| 2019 | Mansfield, L. (2019). Solitudo: Spaces, Places, and Times of Solitude in Late Medieval and Early Modern Cultures. EMOTIONS-HISTORY CULTURE SOCIETY, 3(2), 324-325. |
| 2019 | Barbour, K., & Mansfield, L. (2019). Intersections between corporeal performance and distributed digital audiences: Casey Jenkins and remediated artistic practice. TDR/The Drama Review, 63(1), 125-140. |
| 2003 | Mansfield, L. (2003). The Most Charismatic King: Nascent Celebrity in the French Renaissance. Refractory, 3, 1-12. |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2026 | Mansfield, L. (2026). Creativity and Conflict in Northern Europe's Dark Renaissance: Urs Graf, Niklaus Manuel Deutsch, and the Artist Mercenaries. Palgrave. |
| 2016 | Mansfield, L. (2016). Representions of Renaissance Monarchy: Francis I and the image-makers. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Mansfield, L. (2025). Portraits of Eleanor of Austria: From Invisible to Inimitable French Queen Consort. In Women and Power at the French Court 1483 1563 (pp. 173-205). Routledge. DOI Scopus4 |
| 2022 | Mansfield, L. (2022). Portraiture. In E. Griffey (Ed.), Early Modern Court Culture (1 ed., pp. 309-324). Oxon, UK: Routledge. DOI |
| 2020 | Mansfield, L. (2020). Mary Beale: pioneer of portraiture. In A. Aitken, I. Crombie, M. Patty, M. Quirk, & M. Russell-Cook (Eds.), She Persists: Perspectives on Women in Art & Design (pp. 18-25). Melbourne, Vic., Australia: National Gallery of Victoria. |
| 2020 | Mansfield, L. (2020). Mary Beale: pioneer of portraiture. In A. Aitken, I. Crombie, M. Patty, M. Quirk, & M. Russell-Cook (Eds.), She Persists: Perspectives on Women in Art & Design (pp. 18-25). Melbourne, Vic., Australia: National Gallery of Victoria. |
| 2019 | Mansfield, L. (2019). Lustrous Virtue: Eleanor of Austria's Jewels and Gems as Composite Cultural Identity and Affective Maternal Agency. In E. Griffey (Ed.), Sartorial Politics in Early Modern Europe Fashioning Women (pp. 93-114). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. DOI Scopus2 |
| 2018 | Mansfield, L. (2018). Portraits of Eleanor of Austria: From Invisible to Inimitable French Queen Consort. In S. Broomhall (Ed.), Women and Power at the French Court, 1483-1563 (pp. 173-208). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. DOI |
| 2017 | Mansfield, L. (2017). The grand design of Francis I and his northern image-makers, Jan van Scorel. In L. Fagnart, & I. Lecocq (Eds.), Arts et artistes du Nord à la cour de Francois Ier (pp. 187-204). Paris: Editions Picard. |
| 2015 | Mansfield, L. (2015). Face-to-face with the "Flanders Mare": Fama and Hans Holbein the Younger's portrait of Anne of Cleves. In C. Walker, & K. Kerr (Eds.), 'Fama' and her sisters: Gossip and rumour in early modern Europe (1 ed., pp. 115-135). Belgium: Brepols Publishers. DOI |
| 2008 | Mansfield, L. (2008). The royal art of conjugal discord : a satirical double portrait of Francis I and Eleanor of Austria. In M. Cassidy-Welch, & P. Sherlock (Eds.), Practices of Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (pp. 117-136). Belgium: Brepols. |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2013 | Mansfield, L. (2013). The Representation of Artefacts in Second Life: interaction, imagination, interpretation, innovation.. In P. Krutisch, & G. U. Großmann (Eds.), The challenge of the object: 33rd congress of the International Committee of the History of Art (CIHA). Vol. 3 (pp. 817-820). Nuremberg: VErlag des Germanischen Nationalmuseum GNM Museum Press. |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2009 | Messenger, J., & Mansfield, L. (2009). Making Nature: Masters of European Landscape Art (No. Of Pieces: Three catalogue entries for Dutch seventeenth-century landscape paintings.) [Exhibition]. Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia. |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2018 | Smart, G. (2018). Of Broken Trees and Elephant Ivories: curating and performing twelve piano works inspired by the legacy of pianos in colonial Australia. A portfolio of recorded performances and exegesis. (PhD Thesis, The University of Adelaide). |
Category 1 research
2018-2020: ARC Discovery Project. "Gendering the Italian Wars, 1494-1559." Chief Investigators: Susan Broomhall (UWA); Carolyn James (Monash); Lisa Mansfield.
National small research grant
2022: Art History Institute of Australia (AHIA) in association with the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ). "'Leonardo of the North': The Polymathic Creativity of Jan van Scorel."
International research fellowship
2017: Renaissance Society of America, Kress Fellowship for Art History. "Humanism and Portraiture: Jan van Scorel and the Ethics of Image-Making." Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto.
Travel grants
2012: The Ian Potter Foundation. Overseas conference attendance.
2001: University of Melbourne. Graduate Research in Arts Travel Scheme.
Teaching and Learning grants
2010: University of Adelaide. "Art History Online." Cathy Speck and Lisa Mansfield.
2009: University of Adelaide. "Creating a Virtual Gallery" Cathy Speck and Lisa Mansfield.
Postgraduate scholarship
1998: University of Melbourne. APA (Australian Postgraduate Award - with stipend)
Before taking up her position at the University of Adelaide in mid-2008, Lisa was a tutor and guest lecturer in Art History at the University of Melbourne (1998-2005). She established the undergraduate program in Art History at the University of Adelaide in 2009 and was awarded a Certificate for Outstanding Student Feedback in Teaching and Learning in the same year.
Lisa has also made an extensive contribution to the previous Postgraduate Coursework Art History program, coordinating courses in the MA Curatorial and Museum Studies, specifically in the area of exhibition development (2008, 2012, 2015), MA Art History minor thesis research seminar (2008, 2012, 2015).
In addition, Lisa supervised undergraduate projects and placements in the ARTS 2001 Arts Internship course at various cultural organisations across Adelaide, including: Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre; Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute Inc.; National Trust of South Australia, Ayres House and Carrick Hill; Mitcham City Council; and Yellow Door Studio. She has also supervised and examined History Honours theses focused on Art History and visual culture topics.
| Date | Role | Research Topic | Program | Degree Type | Student Load | Student Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Co-Supervisor | Aspects of the spiritual in modern Australian art | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Part Time | Ms Tracey Dianne Lock |
| Date | Role | Research Topic | Program | Degree Type | Student Load | Student Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 - 2022 | Co-Supervisor | Collaborative Orchestrations in Sophie Calle’s Prenez soin de vous and Mathieu Briand’s Et In Libertalia Ego | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Ms Debra Anne Hoadley |
| 2017 - 2019 | Co-Supervisor | Of Broken Trees and Elephant Ivories: curating and performing twelve piano works inspired by the legacy of pianos in colonial Australia. A portfolio of recorded performances and exegesis. | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Ms Gabriella Smart |
| 2016 - 2023 | Principal Supervisor | The Evolution of the Body in Contemporary Art and Digital Media: Asger Carlsen, Julie Rrap, Leah Schrager, Juliana Huxtable | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Part Time | Ms Alexandra Mowbray |
| 2011 - 2015 | Co-Supervisor | Gestural Abstraction in Australian Art 1947-1963: Repositioning the Work of Albert Tucker | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mrs Carol Ann Gilchrist |
| 2011 - 2016 | Co-Supervisor | The Metaphor of Perspective | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Miss Fiona May O'Brien |
| 2010 - 2016 | Co-Supervisor | Beings of Nature and Reason: Mythological Masculinities in Early 18th-Century French Art and Visual Culture | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Part Time | Dr Melanie Ann Cooper |
| Date | Role | Committee | Institution | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 - ongoing | Member | Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics Low Risk Review Group | University of Adelaide | Australia |
| 2022 - ongoing | Member | School of Humanities Research Committee | University of Adelaide | Australia |
| 2017 - 2018 | Representative | Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Executive Committee | University of Adelaide | Australia |
| 2015 - ongoing | Member | Learning and Teaching Committee | University of Adelaide | Australia |
| Date | Role | Membership | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 - ongoing | Member | ANZAMEMS (Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies) | Australia |
| 2016 - ongoing | Member | Renaissance Society of America | United States |
| 2016 - ongoing | Member | Historians of Netherlandish Art | Netherlands |
| Date | Office Name | Institution | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 - 2020 | Head of Department, Art History | University of Adelaide | Australia |
| 2015 - 2016 | Acting Head Department of Art History | University of Adelaide | Australia |
| 2015 - 2016 | Postgraduate Coordinator Art History | University of Adelaide | Australia |
| 2015 - 2016 | Acting Coordinator Graduate Program Art History (PGCW) | University of Adelaide | Australia |
