Sabrina Norlander Eliasson took up her role as Deputy Director of the Institute in January 2023. She is Full Professor of Art History at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University where she is the founding director of the International Master Program in Technical Art History and the Art Museum. She specializes in female monastic culture in late Baroque Rome, with a particular focus on material culture, consumption and liminal spaces within enclosed convent areas. Further research interests include the migration and mobility of artistic techniques in early eighteenth-century Europe and artistic discourses in nineteenth-century fiction. In collaboration with the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, she headed the project Italian Paintings. Three centuries of collecting at the Nationalmuseum in 2009 – 2015.
Currently, Sabrina is finishing the monograph We are living like Queens. The Borghese apartment in SS Domenico e Sisto and the Materiality of Religious life in Baroque Rome, forthcoming with Brepols Publishing. Her new research project, funded by the Swedish Research Council, is entitled Art and Science. Mobility and Cultural Transfer in the Age of Liberty and runs in collaboration with partners in Sweden and Italy.

Selected publications

Monographs:
Norlander Eliasson, Portraiture and Social Identity in Eighteenth Century Rome, Manchester, New York and London: Manchester University Press, 2009.

Edited volumes:
I monasteri di clausura a Roma in età moderna, vol. II, S. Norlander Eliasson and S. Sturm (eds.), Foligno: Quattroemme Editore, [forthcoming 2023].

Italian Paintings in the Nationalmuseum: Three Centuries of collecting Vol. I, S. Norlander Eliasson et al (eds.), Ostfildern and Stockholm: Nationalmuseum and Hatje Kantz, 2015.

The City of the Soul. The Literary Making of Rome, eds. S. Norlander Eliasson and S. Fogelberg Rota, Svenska Institutet i Rom: Suecoromana 8, 2015.

Articles in journals and edited volumes:
Norlander Eliasson, “A landmark of the transcience of all earthly greatness, glory and power!’ Versailles and the Myth of the Ancien Régime in the writings and collections of the Swedish Marquis Claes Lagergren (1853-1930).”, Le mythe de Versailles et l’Europe des cours, XVII-XX siècles, M. de Vinha, G. Sabatier and F. Leroux (eds.), Centre de recherche du château de Versailles 2023. [in press].

2023. Norlander Eliasson, “From Palace to Convent. The Visual and Material Making of a Choir Nun in Baroque Rome”, I monasteri di clausura a Roma in età moderna, vol. II, S. Norlander Eliasson and S. Sturm, Foligno: Quattroemme Editore 2023. [forthcoming]
2024. Norlander Eliasson, “Material som process. Mening och metod i teknisk konstvetenskap”, Materialitet, M. Snickare and E. Manker (eds.), Basic Readings in Culture and Aesthetics n. 4, Stockholm University Press, 2023. [forthcoming].
2025. Norlander Eliasson, “Making or Meaning? Mapping Technical Art History in Sweden and New Premises for Education and Research, ZZK: Zeitschrift für Kunsttechnologie und Konservierung 2022.

S. Norlander Eliasson, ’Authors of degenerated Renaissance known as Baroque’. The Baedeker effect and the Arts: shortcuts to artistic appreciation in Rome’, Rome and the Guidebook Tradition, A. Blennow and S.Fogelberg Rota (eds.), Amsterdam: Der Gruyter 2019.