Ane Cornelia Pade
- Affiliated Lecturer
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About
Ane Cornelia Pade is an affiliated lecturer and PhD candidate in History of Art at the University of Cambridge. In 2020, she obtained an MPhil in History of Art and Architecture from Cambridge with distinction and ranked first in her cohort. Ane Cornelia holds a BA in History of Art from the University of Copenhagen (2019). During her BA, she spent time at Yale University’s Sustainable Preservation of Cultural heritage program (2017) and Barnard College at Columbia University (2018).
Research
My research focuses on art, architecture, and material culture in Paris during the long eighteenth century, with particular attention to the social, cultural, and political contexts of sculpture collecting and ephemeral popular culture. My doctoral thesis, From the Hôtel Bondy to Frascati: Aspiration and Transformation in Revolutionary Paris, 1771–1811 (University of Cambridge), traced the transformation of a grand Parisian residence into the city’s most fashionable pleasure garden after the Revolution, uncovering lost artworks and archival materials to illuminate how art and architecture shaped new forms of identity and sociability. Building on this work, my current research examines how sculpture collections were created, displayed, and dispersed, and how the visual and architectural settings shaped the meanings of fine art in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras. I am the recipient of The Burlington Magazine Scholarship for the study of French eighteenth-century fine and decorative art for the year 2025.