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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.

cover of Histoire de Saint Etienne

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

“Velum Templi: Painted Cloths of the Passion and the Making of Lenten Ritual in Reims,” Studies in Iconography 24 (2003) :199-229.

“Tapisseries et Broderies Flamandes à la fin du Moyen Age et au début de la Renaissance,” in Le siècle des Primitifs: l’art flamand et hollandais de la fin du Moyen Age et du début de la Renaissance, Ed. Christian Heck, Paris: Editions Mazenod, 2003, 392-415.

“Judith et Holoferne : images du vice, images de la vertu,” in Marc de Launay, Catherine Lépront, Laura Weigert, Judith et Holopherne, Paris : Desclée de Brouwer, 2003, 83-123.

“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

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Recent Lectures:

“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:

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- present : 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:

American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellowship
Felix Gilbert Member, Institute for Advanced Study
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






Contact:
    Phone: 732-932-0122, Ext. 12
    Email Dr. Weigert

Office Hours:
 

Wednesdays, 1:00pm-2:00pm
By Appointment


Current Interests & Research:

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Art and Theater in the Fifteenth century

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Space and spatiality in Early Modern Europe

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Twentieth- century art historiography in France

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Representing love in sixteenth-century France

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Medieval and Renaissance ekphrasis


Undergraduate Classes Taught:

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Pictorial Narrative

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Gender and Visual Representation 1200-1700

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Introduction to Methods of Art History

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Northern Renaissance Art

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Gothic Art and Architecture

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History of Medieval Art and Architecture


Graduate Classes Taught:

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Tapestry








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