Elisabeth KievenElisabeth Kieven studied art history, history and archaeology at the Universities of Münster, Bonn, Munich, and Vienna. Her research on the Italian architect Alessandro Galilei (1691–1737), carried out in Dublin, London, Florence and Rome, resulted n a doctoral thesis completed in 1977 at the University of Bonn. From 1978–1985 she was a senior fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max-Planck-Institute for Art History) in Rome, and in 1984 also a Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. In 1991 she presented her Habilitation thesis on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century architectural drawings in Rome at the University of Augsburg. After teaching at the University of Stuttgart, in 1994 she became professor of art history at the University of Tübingen. In 1998–1999 she was Dean of the faculty of Cultural Sciences. From 1999 until her retirement in 2014 she was co-director of the Bibliotheca Hertziana. Read More Read Less