Aleksander Musiał, MPhil

Aleksander Musiał is a doctoral candidate in Art and Archaeology at Princeton University, specialising in early modern art and architecture. A graduate in Classics from the University of Cambridge and in Art History from the University of Warsaw, he pursued internships at the curatorial departments of the Princeton University Art Museum, the Frick Collection and the Morgan Library. As an awardee of the Paul Mellon Predoctoral Dissertation Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, Washington (DC), he currently works on his doctoral thesis, entitled Immersion: Classical Reception and Eastern-European Transformations of Hygiene Architecture, ca. 1680–1830. As member of ‘Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions’ research group he will explore the use of antiquarian and medical treatises in shaping bodies and identities inside the intimate and polytemporal sphere of eighteenth-century baths architecture.