Agnieszka Bender
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0432-7436
Affiliation:
Cardinal Wyszyński University in Warsaw
Poland
Bio Statement (e.g., department and rank)
art historian, diplomat, professor at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin and the head of the Department of Artistic Culture (since 2006), professor at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw and the head of the Department of Artistic Culture (since 2009). She specialises in Renaissance and Baroque art, decorative arts, and Polish-French and Polish-Italian artistic relationships. She is an author, co-author and editor of nearly a hundred academic papers (e.g. Złocone kurdybany w Polsce. Lublin 1992; Tapiserie w dawnej Rzeczypospolitej. Lublin 2004). She is a member of many Polish and international scientific societies and a scholar at Scuola Storica Italo-Polacca at Istituto Sturzo in Rome, The Attingham Society in London, Centre International d’Etude des Textiles Anciens in Lyon, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. In 2012–2016 she was the Deputy Dean of the Faculty of History and Social Sciences, and in 2016–2018 Director of the Polish Institute in Rome. Since 2019 she has worked at The Cultural Studies Institute at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw.