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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
“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
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
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