Robyn Dora Radway
@robyndoraradway.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Historical Studies @historicalstudies.bsky.social
at Central European University (Vienna)
Early Modernist | Habsburg and Ottoman, author of Portraits of Empires
at Central European University (Vienna)
Early Modernist | Habsburg and Ottoman, author of Portraits of Empires
Quick visit to the Staatliches Museum Schwerin to look at the representation of some goldsmiths works in portraits of Ulrich.
November 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Quick visit to the Staatliches Museum Schwerin to look at the representation of some goldsmiths works in portraits of Ulrich.
Having a marvelous and inspiring workshop on Melchior Lorch in Copenhagen. Being able to handle drawings, prints, and manuscripts while you talk about open problems and questions with a group of experts is magical.
October 3, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Having a marvelous and inspiring workshop on Melchior Lorch in Copenhagen. Being able to handle drawings, prints, and manuscripts while you talk about open problems and questions with a group of experts is magical.
Another day, another museum visit. Another discussion of magnificent objects
April 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Another day, another museum visit. Another discussion of magnificent objects
Wolf Huber. 😍
March 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Wolf Huber. 😍
Today I am taking my students to my favorite museum: Hofjagd- und Rüstkammer #KHM. Wearable sculptures recalling the physical presence of absent owners, performing masculinity in commissions that were part of a premodern flex culture. But more importantly, just stunning craftsmanship! #armsandarmor
March 4, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Today I am taking my students to my favorite museum: Hofjagd- und Rüstkammer #KHM. Wearable sculptures recalling the physical presence of absent owners, performing masculinity in commissions that were part of a premodern flex culture. But more importantly, just stunning craftsmanship! #armsandarmor
CfP: The Archival Impulse: Knowledge Production, Record Keeping, and Imperial Governance (15th-19th Centuries)
Vienna - March, 19-20 2026. www.oeaw.ac.at/sice/events/...
Vienna - March, 19-20 2026. www.oeaw.ac.at/sice/events/...
March 3, 2025 at 7:27 AM
CfP: The Archival Impulse: Knowledge Production, Record Keeping, and Imperial Governance (15th-19th Centuries)
Vienna - March, 19-20 2026. www.oeaw.ac.at/sice/events/...
Vienna - March, 19-20 2026. www.oeaw.ac.at/sice/events/...
Today is my favorite teaching day of the semester in The Politics of Representation: Art and its Histories @historicalstudies.bsky.social : critical race art history, critical cataloging, and intersectional approaches. Fortunate to have a wealth of fantastic new scholarship to work from!
February 28, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Today is my favorite teaching day of the semester in The Politics of Representation: Art and its Histories @historicalstudies.bsky.social : critical race art history, critical cataloging, and intersectional approaches. Fortunate to have a wealth of fantastic new scholarship to work from!
It is always a pleasure to open an author copy, though I never read beyond the first sentence for fear of catching the inevitable mistake... 😏
January 28, 2025 at 9:09 AM
It is always a pleasure to open an author copy, though I never read beyond the first sentence for fear of catching the inevitable mistake... 😏
Happy New Year from Tuscany!
January 2, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Happy New Year from Tuscany!
This semester I had the privilege to teach my favorite course: Ottoman Hungary. Last night we celebrated the end of the semester and I am so thankful to be surrounded by such a great group of adventurous students. Köszi! Danke! Teşekkürler!
December 10, 2024 at 2:53 PM
This semester I had the privilege to teach my favorite course: Ottoman Hungary. Last night we celebrated the end of the semester and I am so thankful to be surrounded by such a great group of adventurous students. Köszi! Danke! Teşekkürler!
I laughed out loud at this one: Habsburg resident ambassador to the Ottoman court David Ungnad wrote in 1574 about an animal being paraded around the city which "the Turks think it is a unicorn." ✨🦄✨. Ungnad: Guys... this is clearly a Rhino... 🦏
December 6, 2024 at 4:10 PM
I laughed out loud at this one: Habsburg resident ambassador to the Ottoman court David Ungnad wrote in 1574 about an animal being paraded around the city which "the Turks think it is a unicorn." ✨🦄✨. Ungnad: Guys... this is clearly a Rhino... 🦏
Gearing up for another full day with @historicalstudies.bsky.social students inside the Weltmuseum / Kunsthistorisches. Habsburgs: collecting the universal and defying gravity since at least the fifteenth century.
December 6, 2024 at 7:00 AM
Gearing up for another full day with @historicalstudies.bsky.social students inside the Weltmuseum / Kunsthistorisches. Habsburgs: collecting the universal and defying gravity since at least the fifteenth century.
Even on the weekend, can't stay away from work. :) dragging the little along for another #Weltmuseum visit.
November 30, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Even on the weekend, can't stay away from work. :) dragging the little along for another #Weltmuseum visit.
Love taking students to the storehouse of history. Scenes from my Palaeography and Archives in Central European History seminar's visit to the HHStA. @historicalstudies.bsky.social
November 29, 2024 at 11:16 AM
Love taking students to the storehouse of history. Scenes from my Palaeography and Archives in Central European History seminar's visit to the HHStA. @historicalstudies.bsky.social
This lovely book arrived in the mail today! I have always been shocked by how few people connected William Morris to Islamic arts. This and the exhibition is a much needed corrective. Go see it if you have a chance! The most British thing is rooted in the arts of the Ottomans and Persians. 😍
November 28, 2024 at 7:42 PM
This lovely book arrived in the mail today! I have always been shocked by how few people connected William Morris to Islamic arts. This and the exhibition is a much needed corrective. Go see it if you have a chance! The most British thing is rooted in the arts of the Ottomans and Persians. 😍
Mood today: sultana holding a fan in the album amicorum of Hans Joachim Prack von Asch from circa 1587–92. She is not messing around... dagger, sassy hand on her hip, and even breaking the fourth wall with that right foot. 😍
#PortraitsofEmpires
#PortraitsofEmpires
November 27, 2024 at 8:33 AM
Mood today: sultana holding a fan in the album amicorum of Hans Joachim Prack von Asch from circa 1587–92. She is not messing around... dagger, sassy hand on her hip, and even breaking the fourth wall with that right foot. 😍
#PortraitsofEmpires
#PortraitsofEmpires
This week in my Ottoman Hungary seminar: preparing to talk #Ottoman #bookhistory and I ran into Ömer Daryā Bey's description of the siege of Esztergom in 1595 and its Ottoman reconquest in 1605. Not surprised to find the Hungarian formal title of the sancakbey of Esztergom on the first folio...😍
November 25, 2024 at 12:18 PM
This week in my Ottoman Hungary seminar: preparing to talk #Ottoman #bookhistory and I ran into Ömer Daryā Bey's description of the siege of Esztergom in 1595 and its Ottoman reconquest in 1605. Not surprised to find the Hungarian formal title of the sancakbey of Esztergom on the first folio...😍
Taking my CEU undergrads to Arms and Armor and the Weltmuseum today. Excited to talk about the politics of representation in art history while standing in front of such works. Perfect complement to the paintings in the KHM to disrupt the canon. Is object biography the answer?
November 22, 2024 at 8:15 AM
Taking my CEU undergrads to Arms and Armor and the Weltmuseum today. Excited to talk about the politics of representation in art history while standing in front of such works. Perfect complement to the paintings in the KHM to disrupt the canon. Is object biography the answer?
Reminds me of this brilliant little guy I ran into the other day in the Kunsthistorisches :) Antikensammlung, IV 4441, c. 600BC
November 20, 2024 at 8:00 AM
Reminds me of this brilliant little guy I ran into the other day in the Kunsthistorisches :) Antikensammlung, IV 4441, c. 600BC
Spending the afternoon admiring Hoogstraten's trompe-l'œil marbled papers at the Rembrandt/Hoogstraten exhibition in the KHM. I think it is clear that the student outdid the master here. 😍😍😍 Living in Vienna certainly has its perks.
November 18, 2024 at 2:02 PM
Spending the afternoon admiring Hoogstraten's trompe-l'œil marbled papers at the Rembrandt/Hoogstraten exhibition in the KHM. I think it is clear that the student outdid the master here. 😍😍😍 Living in Vienna certainly has its perks.
#otd November 17th (1588-1610) Anastasius Demler signed the #albumamicorum of Hans Joachim Prack von Asch in Vienna. Prack, a messenger for the Habsburg Ambassador to Constantinople, collected Ottoman decorated papers. Demler was likeky a professor of law from Tübingen (or a son with the same name?)
November 17, 2024 at 8:02 AM
#otd November 17th (1588-1610) Anastasius Demler signed the #albumamicorum of Hans Joachim Prack von Asch in Vienna. Prack, a messenger for the Habsburg Ambassador to Constantinople, collected Ottoman decorated papers. Demler was likeky a professor of law from Tübingen (or a son with the same name?)
#OTD in #history November 16, 1575, Johann Huetstockher the younger signed the #albumamicorum of the master of the kitchens in the German House in Constantinople, Sebald Plan. Huetstockher was named as a messenger in Stefan Gerlach's travel narrative #portraitsofempires
November 16, 2024 at 8:07 AM
#OTD in #history November 16, 1575, Johann Huetstockher the younger signed the #albumamicorum of the master of the kitchens in the German House in Constantinople, Sebald Plan. Huetstockher was named as a messenger in Stefan Gerlach's travel narrative #portraitsofempires
#OTD in history, November 15, 1590, johann Schürer von Krumau signed the #albumamicorum of Johann Lucano in the German House in Ottoman Constantinople. Lucano was a member if ambassador Pezzen's retinue. I found out about this album after publishing #portraitsofempires. I am sure there are more!
November 15, 2024 at 7:06 AM
#OTD in history, November 15, 1590, johann Schürer von Krumau signed the #albumamicorum of Johann Lucano in the German House in Ottoman Constantinople. Lucano was a member if ambassador Pezzen's retinue. I found out about this album after publishing #portraitsofempires. I am sure there are more!
Archive Thursdays are my favorite. Someone got a little seal crazy on this letter from the kethüda, beys, and ağas of Ottoman Kanizsa to Ferenc Nádasdy. 1668.09.22, HHStA, Hungarica 311, Konv. C, fol. 59v
November 14, 2024 at 12:28 PM
Archive Thursdays are my favorite. Someone got a little seal crazy on this letter from the kethüda, beys, and ağas of Ottoman Kanizsa to Ferenc Nádasdy. 1668.09.22, HHStA, Hungarica 311, Konv. C, fol. 59v
Next Monday, March 25, Columbia University will be hosting me to talk about Portraits of Empires! Looking forward to sharing the voices of people like Ali Bey with NYC!
March 19, 2024 at 9:36 AM
Next Monday, March 25, Columbia University will be hosting me to talk about Portraits of Empires! Looking forward to sharing the voices of people like Ali Bey with NYC!