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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

“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

cover of Weaving sacred SXtories

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






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

Office Hours:
 

Mondays, 2:40-3:40 pm
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

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Rogier van der Weyden: Blood and Tears

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Bruges

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Art in Paris. Spaces, Places, and Pictures: From Lutetia to Louis XIV (Taught in Paris)


Graduate Classes Taught:

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Tapestry

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Art and Performance I: Medieval Theatricality

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Art and Performance II: Processions








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