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Kayo Hirakawa Associate Professor, PhD (Kyoto University)
Research Interests
- The diversification of painting forms in Northern Europe in the 16th and early 17th centuries
- The artistic relationship between Northern Europe and Italy in the 15th and 16th centuries
- Albrecht Dürer and the reception of his art in Northern Europe of the 16th and early 17th centuries
Contact Details
Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 6068501 Japan
kahirakawa*bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp (change * to @)
Selected Publications
・Monograph
- The Pictorialization of Dürer’s Drawings in Northern Europe in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Peter Lang, Bern, 2009.
・Edition
- Aspects of Narrative in Art History: Proceedings of the International Workshop for Young Researchers, held at the Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto 2-3 December 2013, Kayo Hirakawa (ed.), Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 2014.
・Essays
- “Narrative and Material: Paintings on Rare Metal, Stone and Fabric in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries”, Kayo Hirakawa (ed.), Aspects of Narrative in Art History, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 2014, pp. 33－46.
- “Faith, Family and Politics in Lucas Cranach the Elder’s Holy Kinship Altarpiece”, Toshiharu Nakamura (ed.), Images of Familial Intimacy in Eastern and Western Art, Brill, Leyden and Boston, 2014, pp. 54－82.
- “‘Four Elements’ by Hans von Aachen: Longing for the Rarity, Kyoto Studies in Aesthetics and Art History, 12, 2013, pp. 27－62. [Japanese/English version is now in preparation]
- “Spranger’s Italian Period and his Copperplate Paintings”, Kyoto Studies in Aesthetics and Art History, 10, 2011, pp. 133-162. [Japanese/English version is now in preparation]
- “Between the Ephemerality and the Immortality: Bronzino’s ‘Allegory of Happiness’”, Kyoto
Studies in Aesthetics and Art History, 9, 2010, pp. 1－34. [Japanese/English version is now in preparation] - “Birth of the Painting on Copperplate”, Kyoto Studies in Aesthetics and Art History, 8, 2009, pp. 1－31. [Japanese/English version is now in preparation]
- “Brueghel detto Infernale: ‘The Fire of Troy’ by Jan Brueghel the Elder”, Chaos, 2, Graduate School of Literature, Arts and Cultural Studies, Kinki University, 2005, pp. 131－161. [Japanese/English version is now in preparation]
- “Dürer and Jan Brueghel the Elder: One Aspect of the Pictorialization of Dürer’s Drawings at the Court of Rudolf II”, in Aesthetics, 10, The Japanese Society for Aesthetics, 2002, pp. 61－73.
- “Albrecht Dürer’s ‘Landauer Altarpiece’: Painter and Sculptor in Nuremberg”, Studies in Western Art, 7, 2002, pp. 24－41. [Japanese] [Abstract in English]
- “Albrecht Dürer’s ‘Bagnacavallo Madonna’”, Bijutsushi: Journal of the Japan Art History Society, 146, The Japan Art History Society, 1999, pp. 344－361. [Japanese] [Abstract in German]
Research Projects
- “Rarity, Curiosity and Novelty: Aspects of the Diversification of Painting Forms in Northern Mannerism”, 2014－2016 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
- “The Birth and Development of the Copperplate Painting: The Cultural Exchange between the Northern and Southern Europe”, 2009－2011 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
- “Emulation with Old Masters: Reception and Adaptation of Northern Renaissance Art in Prague Mannerism”, 2005－2007 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
- “Dürer Collection and Dürer Renaissance at the Court of Rudolf II”, 2002 Grant-in-Aid, The Kajima Foundation for Art.
- “Historical Studies of German Art in the 15th and 16th Centuries, especially of Albrecht Dürer”, 1997-2000 JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
Academic Career
- April 2001－March 2009 Lecturer/Associate Professor at the School of Literature, Arts and Cultural Studies, Kinki University
- September 2007－March 2008 Studied at the Max-Planck Institute for Art History in Rome on the research fellowship of Kinki University
- From April 2009 Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University
- October 31－November 13 2013 Short-term stay at the University of Vienna on the Researcher Exchange Programs with Oversea Partner Institutions of Kyoto University
- 30 March－30 September 2014 Guest Researcher at Trier University under the sponsorship of the Kyoto University Global Frontier Project for Young Professionals: The John Mung Advanced Program