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Laura Weigert
Associate Professor
Northern Renaissance Art
Ph.D., Northwestern University
Biographical Information:
Professor Weigert specializes in Northern European art of the late Middle Ages
and Renaissance. Her research focuses on the interaction between visual images
and their architectural and ritual settings in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
and includes the study of manuscript illumination, prints, panel painting, and
textiles. Weaving Sacred Stories: French Choir Tapestries and the Performance
of Clerical Identity (Cornell University Press, 2004) demonstrates how tapestries
of the lives of saints contributed to a process of story-telling, whereby the
clerical elite legitimated their position in the social sphere. Her current project, “Images
in Action: the Theatricality of Franco-Flemish Art” explores the complex
relationship between large-scale visual imagery and theatrical performance in
late medieval France and Flanders. Professor Weigert received her B.A. from Swarthmore
College and her Ph.D. from Northwestern University. She also studied at the University
of Tübingen and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
She has taught at the University of Nantes and the Ecole Nationale des Ponts
et Chaussées and was Associate Professor of Art History and Humanities
at Reed College before joining the Rutgers faculty in September, 2006.
Recent Publications:
Books
Judith et Holopherne, Marc de Launay, Catherine Lépront, and Laura Weigert,
Paris : Desclée de Brouwer, 2003.
Weaving Sacred Stories: French Choir Tapestries and the Performance of ClericalI
dentity, Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004.
Articles
“Chambres d’Amour : Courtly Tapestries and the Texturing of Space,” Oxford
Art Journal 31.3 (2008): 317-336.
“Framing Spectacle: The Commemoration of a Mystery Play in Painting,” Early
Modern France 13 (2009): 65-87.
“Medieval Theatricality in Tapestry and its Afterlife in Painting,” Art
History 32.3 (2009), in press.
“Tapestry,” “Nicolas Bataille,” and “Pivial,” entries
in The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Robert E. Bjork, ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, in press.
-“Visualizing the Rhythm of Urban Drama in the Late Middle Ages,” in
Movement and Meaning in Medieval Art, eds. Nino Zchlomidse and Giovanni Freni,
Princeton: Princeton University Press, forthcoming.
“ An illuminated play script in print and Anthoine Vérard’s
marketing of (the) “Vengeance” in The Social Life of Illumination,
Joyce Coleman, Mark Cruse, Kathryn Smith eds, Turnhout: Brepols, forthcoming.
“Velum Templi: Painted Cloths of the Passion and the Making of Lenten
Ritual in Reims,” Studies in Iconography 24 (2003) :199-229.
“Exposing Tapestry,” Art Bulletin LXXXV. 4 (2003) : 688-709.
-“Illuminating the Arras Mystery Play: Text and Image in Arras B.M. MS
697,” in Excavating the Medieval Image: Manuscripts, Artists, Audiences-
Essays in Honor of Sandra Hindman, David Areford and Nina Rowe, editors, London:
Ashgate, 2004, 81-106.
“Les tentures de choeur des églises francaises du Moyen Age à la
Renaissance,” in Saints de Choeur. Tapisseries du Moyen Age et de la
Renaissance,
Paris : Seuil, 2004, 17-40.
“La mise en abîme de l’intériorité : la dame
jouant de la musique dans les tapisseriesmillefleurs,” in Les Représentations
de la musique au Moyen Age, Martine Clouzot and Christine Lalou eds.,
Paris : Editions de la Cité de la Musique, 2005, 120-128.
“Tirer le rideau: planéité et profondeur dans les tapisseries
de la vie courtoise,” Oxymore, Acts of the ninth annual
conference on art and rhetoric, Bertrand Rougé ed., University of
Pau Press, in press.
Longer list of publications
Recent Lectures:
-“Medieval Theatricality and its Afterlife in Painting,” New Perspectives
on Urban Entertainment, Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University, April 4, 2009.
“Medieval Theatricality in Tapestry,” Visualität und Theatralität
in den Künsten der Frühen Neuzeit, Berlin, Freie Universtität,
July 14, 2008.
“The Medievalist’s Place in a ‘Secular’ Institution,” Seeing
the Medieval: Realms of
Faith/Visions for Today, New York, Mobia, May 31, 2008.
“Visualizing the Rhythm of Urban Drama in the late Middle
Ages,” International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo,
May, 2007.
“ Pictures and Plays of the Vengeance of our Lord,” Medieval/Renaissance
Forum, Yale University, New Haven, April, 2007.
“Theatralität in Bildwerken und Schauspielen des Spätmittelalters
und der Renaissance,” Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken
and Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg,, December,
2006.
“Entre la Messe et les Mystères : la Passion du Christ à la
Chaise Dieu,” Journées-rencontres autour des tapisseries de
la Chaise-Dieu (Conference on the tapestries of the Chaise Dieu), La Chaise-Dieu,
France, September
23, 2006.
“
Diptychs of Violence : the Passion and Vengeance of Christ in Pictures
and Plays,” Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, April
3, 2006.
“The Interaction between the Theater and Tapestries in the Late Middle
Ages,” Institute of Art History of the Academy of Sciences of the
Czech Republic and Charles University, November 9, 2005.
“La mise en abîme de l’intériorité : la dame
jouant de la musique dans les tapisseries millefleurs,” Les Représentations
de la Musique au Moyen Age, Paris, Cité de la Musique, April, 2004.
“Texts and Textiles : the Case of the Lives of Saints, ” Vassar College,
Poughkeepsie, New York, November, 2002.
“Theatrical Performance as Source for Tapestries: the Case of the Life
of Saint Remi, Reims,” International Colloquium on Tapestry, New York,
Metropolitan Museum of Art, June, 2002.
Activities:
-2008-2009: Pinckney Book Prize Committee of the French Historical Association.
May, 2009-present: President, Consortium for Teaching the Middle Ages (TEAMS).
2010: Co-organizer, with Glenn Peers, “Can Description Help Images Speak,” CAA
annual conference, Chicago.
Reader for The Art Bulletin, Studies in Iconography, Viator, Speculum,
Gastronomica,
University of California Press, Notre Dame Press, Ashgate Press.
2007-present: Director and Faculty Member, Rutgers Summer Art History Program
in Paris.
2008-present: Landscapes-Soundscapes-Cityscapes, joint research project conducted
with Prof. Dr. Tanja Michalsky (Art History, Berlin) and Prof. Dr. Anno Mungen
(Music History, Thurnau).
Coorganizer, “Frontiers in the Humanities,” Annual conference
sponsored by the American Philosophical Society and the Alexander von
Humboldt Foundation, Philadelphia, October, 2006.
January 2004 –May 2006 : Board of Directors, Consortium for Teaching
the Middle Ages (TEAMS).
May, 2006- 2009 : Vice President, Consortium for Teaching the Middle
Ages (TEAMS).
Consultant for exhibition: Saints de Choeur. Tapisseries du Moyen
Age et de la Renaissance, Aix-en-Provence, Caen, Toulouse.
Fellowships:
Alexander von Humboldt collaborative American-German research grant
American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellowship
Felix Gilbert Member, Institute for Advanced Study
National Humanities
Institute Sabbatical Fellowship (declined)
Max Planck Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen, Germany
Solmsen Postdoctoral Fellowship in residence: Institute for Research
in the Humanities; University of Wisconsin, Madison
Samuel H. Kress Dissertation Writing Fellowship.
Chateaubriand Fellowship: Paris, France.
Samuel H. Kress Travel Grant in the History of Art.
Belgian-American Educational Foundation Grant.
Fulbright Fellowship: Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen,
Germany
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