Lydia Hansell
PhD student; Associate LecturerPersonal Links

Thesis: Patronage of a Prelate: Artistic Provisions for the Religious Foundations of Cardinal Jean Rolin (1408-1483)
Supervised by Prof. Susie Nash
Education
- Courtauld Institute of Art
2013-2016 PhD candidate (full AHRC funding)
2011-2012 MA in Northern Renaissance Art [Commemoration, Salvation and Splendour: Artistic Production and Patronage in France and the Burgundian Netherlands, c. 1380-1520] (Distinction).
Dissertation title ‘Cardinal Jean Rolin and the Chapelle Saint-Léger in the Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame, Beaune’ (Distinction)
- Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford
2004-2008 BA (Hons) Classics
Research interests
- Ecclesiastical Patronage
- Cardinal Jean Rolin
- Burgundian State
- Artists at the Court of Burgundy
- Avignon at the end of the Schism
Conference papers
- 13-15 March 2015 Renaissance Cardinals: Diplomats and Patrons in the Early Modern World (St Mary’s University, Twickenham
- March 2014 WIP Seminar Paper, ‘Cardinal Rolin and the Chapelle Saint-Vincent, Cathédrale de Saint-Lazare, Autun’ (Courtauld Institute of Art)
Other academic activity
- May 2015 Co-organiser of Third Annual Renaissance Postgraduate Colloquium – ‘Between Heaven and Earth: Ecclesiastical Patronage in Europe, 1400-1600’
- March 2014 Member of editorial team for immediations: The Courtauld Journal for Postgraduate Research (Book Reviews)
Academic Training
- June 2014 University of Columbia Palaeography Course
- 2013-2014 Palaeography Course (Institute of Historical Research)
- 2013-2014 CHASE Material Witness training programme