Nils Weber, M.A.

Nils Weber is a doctoral fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut and a PhD candidate at the University of Heidelberg. His current research focuses on the impact of crises and epidemics in early modern visual cultures. In his dissertation, he investigates several sociopolitical crises in the Venetian Republic, among them the plague epidemic of 1575-77, with a particular focus on Paolo Veronese.

Nils received his B.A. in Philosophy and M.A. in Art History from the University of Heidelberg, while also studying Philosophy for a research semester at the Università di Tor Vergata in Rome. He held several fellowships, internships and academic positions for the European Liberal Arts Network, the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice and as a lecturer at the University of Heidelberg, where he taught seminars about the methods of art history. His research has been supported by various grants and prices, among them a long-term scholarship from the Landesgraduiertenförderung Baden-Württemberg.