prof. PhDr. Milena Bartlová, CSc.

(born in 1958 Prague)

Education and academic qualifications: 1983 PhDr in Art History, Charles University Prague, thesis – Figurally Decorated Frames of Bohemian Gothic Paintings; 1995 PhD in Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences – thesis: Relationship Between Bohemian Graceful Madonnas and Icons; 2001 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University; 2005 Professor, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University.

Professional experience: 1977–1991 National Gallery in Prague, since 1983 Curator in Dept. of Old Bohemian Art; 1992–1996 Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences; 1996–1997 National Gallery in Prague, Collection of Old Masters; 1998–2005 Faculty of Education, Charles University; since 1998 Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Department of Art History, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University Brno. 2007/08 – professional stays abroad – Fellow at Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study Berlin).

Teaching activities: lectures in history of medieval art (10th–15th century) and in methodology of art history, leading of seminars, diploma and doctorate theses.

Research activities: She has been involved in research in the field of Art History and Culture of Middle Ages (e.g. History Teacher in a Museum. Didactic material for the exhibition Glory of the Baroque Bohemia; Between the Gothic and the Renaissance - art of the Jagiellonian period in Bohemia and Moravia). Her next research activities are focused with the Methodology of Art History. Medal of the Rector of the Masaryk University for the best scholarly publication in 2001.

Member: 1999–2003 Advisory Board of the director of Moravian Gallery Brno; 1998–2002 Board of the grant program "Open Door to the Museum", Open Society Fund Prague; 2002–2005 Board of the committee 408, State Grant Agency of the Czech Republic; since 2005 Board of the grant program in visual arts, Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic; since 2004 Working group of the Accrediting Committee of the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic; since 2004 Buying advisory committee, National Gallery in Prague - Collection of Old Masters; since 2007 Scientific advisory board, Collegium Bohemicum (Museum for the History of Germans in Bohemia). She was or is member of the board of editors of some journals (Castrum Pragense; Bulletin of the Moravian Gallery; Opuscula Historiae Colloquia Medievalia Pragensia). Fellow of the Center of Medieval Studies (Institute of Philosophy of the ASCR).