Peter Gillgren - Biography#

Professor Peter Gillgren is a Swedish art historian and holder of the Anders Zorn professorship at Stockholm University, Department of Art History. He is also a fellow of The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. His PhD was received from Uppsala University in 1995 on a dissertation about painted epitaphs in Early Modern Sweden.

Publications include articles on Renaissance and Baroque art, as well as on the theories of Art History. In 2009 appeared a book on art and identity in 16th century Sweden. A book on the spectatorship and site specificity of Federico Barocci's art was out on Ashgate in 2011. On Ashgate, the year after, was also published a volume on Performativity and Performance in Baroque Rome. It was edited by Peter Gillgren together with Mårten Snickare

Currently Gillgren is working on a project about Michelangelo and multimedia, for which he spent a semester at EHESS in Paris as a visiting scholar.

Gillgren participates regularily at international conferences and has co-arranged several symposiums and conferences in Stockholm and Rome.

Beside the Early Modern period Gillgren is interested in contemporary art, music and multi-media.