Barbara Baert (born 1967,Turnhout) is a Belgian
art historian
Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...
, and professor of art history at
KU Leuven
KU Leuven (or Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) is a Catholic research university in the city of Leuven, Belgium. It conducts teaching, research, and services in computer science, engineering, natural sciences, theology, humanities, medicine, l ...
.
Career
Barbara Baert teaches in the fields of iconology, art theory and analysis, and medieval art. She is the founder of the Iconology Research Group, an international and interdisciplinary platform for the study of the interpretation of images. Baert is a fellow at Illuminare – Centre for the Study of Medieval Art (KU Leuven).
In 1997, Baert obtained a doctoral degree with her research on the True Cross, later published in English under the title ''A Heritage of Holy Wood: The Legend of the True Cross in Text and Image.'' She directed several international research programmes, such as ''Mary Magdalene and the Touching of Jesus, an intra- and interdisciplinary investigation of the interpretation of John 20:17'' sponsored by the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders (2004-2008) and ''The Woman with the Hemorrhage (Matthew 9:20-22; Mark 5:24-34; Luke 8:42b-48), an iconological study of the interpretation of the Haemorrhoissa in medieval art (4th-15th century)'' funded by the KU Leuven (2008-2012). Currently, Baert is supervising several interdisciplinary and international projects, including ''Ornamenta sacra. Iconology of liturgical objects'' (2017-2021) (Belspo-Brain-be,
UC Louvain and
KIK/IRPA) and ''Kairós, or the Right Moment. Nachleben and iconology'' (2017-2022) (
KU Leuven
KU Leuven (or Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) is a Catholic research university in the city of Leuven, Belgium. It conducts teaching, research, and services in computer science, engineering, natural sciences, theology, humanities, medicine, l ...
). Since January 2014 she has been a life member of the
Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts
The Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts ( nl, Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten, or KVAB) is one of an independent learned society of science and arts of the Flemish Community in Belgium. ...
. She is also a member of the
Academia Europaea
The Academia Europaea is a pan-European Academy of Humanities, Letters, Law, and Sciences.
The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europea ...
. Between April and September 2015, she held a fellowship at the Internationale Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie (IKKM). As coordinator of the Iconology Research Group, Baert is the editor-in-chief of three peer-reviewed series: Iconologies (ASP editions), Studies in Iconology (Peeters Publishers), and Art & Religion (Peeters Publishers).
Prizes and awards
Baert was honoured twice by the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts: in 1993 for her outstanding thesis in art history entitled ''Het Boec van den Houte'' and in 2006 for her outstanding scientific career before the age of forty. In 2016, she was honoured the Pioneer's Award of the KU Leuven and the
Francqui Prize
The Francqui Prize is a prestigious Belgian scholarly and scientific prize named after Émile Francqui. Normally annually since 1933, the Francqui Foundation awards it in recognition of the achievements of a scholar or scientist, who at the start ...
for her pioneering work in iconology and medieval visual culture. In 2017 she received the honour of Commander of the
Order of Léopold
The Order of Leopold ( nl, Leopoldsorde, french: Ordre de Léopold, ) is one of the three current Belgian national honorary orders of knighthood. It is the oldest and highest order of Belgium and is named in honour of its founder, King Le ...
. In 2019 Baert became a member in residence of the
Institute for Advanced Study
The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States, is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. It has served as the academic home of internationally preeminent scholar ...
(IAS) at
Princeton
Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine ...
.
Publications
* B. Baert, ''A Heritage of Holy Wood: The Legend of the True Cross in Text and Image,'' Leiden:
Brill
Brill may refer to:
Places
* Brielle (sometimes "Den Briel"), a town in the western Netherlands
* Brill, Buckinghamshire, a village in England
* Brill, Cornwall, a small village to the west of Constantine, Cornwall, UK
* Brill, Wisconsin, an un ...
, 2004.
* B. Baert, "The Gaze in the Garden. Noli me tangere and embodiment in the 15th century Netherlands and Rhineland", in ''Body and Embodiment. Nederlands kunsthistorisch Jaarboek'', 2007, pp. 37–61.
* B. Baert, "Touching the Hem. The Thread between Garment and Blood in the Story of the Woman with the Hemorrhage (Mark 5:24b-34parr)", in ''Das Kleid der Bilder'', eds. Marius Rimmele & David Ganz (Textile Studies, 4), Konstanz-Zürich, 2012, pp. 159–182.
* B. Baert, ''Interspaces between Word, Gaze and Touch. The Bible and the Visual Medium in the Middle Ages. Collected essays on Noli me tangere, the Woman with the Haemorrhage, the Head of John the Baptist'' (Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia, LXII), Leuven: Peeters, 2011. ()
* B. Baert, ''Caput Joannis in Disco. Essay on a Man’s Head'' (Visualising the Middle Ages VMA 8), Leiden: Brill, 2012. ()
* B. Baert, L. Kusters and E. Sidgwick, "An issue of blood. The healing of the woman with the Haemorrhage (Mark 5.24B-34, Luke 8.42B-48, Matthew 9.19-22) in early medieval visual culture", in ''Blood, Sweat and Tears - The Changing Concepts of Physiology from Antiquity into Early Modern Europe'', ed. M. Horstmanshoff (Intersections. Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture, 25), Leiden: Brill, 2012, pp. 307–338.
* B. Baert, "Adam, Seth and Jerusalem. The Legend of the Wood of the Cross in Medieval Literature and Iconography", in ''Adam, le premier home'' (Micrologus’ Library, 45), Firenze (Sislem), 2012, pp. 69–99.
* B. Baert, Ann-Sophie Lehmann & Jenke van der Akkerveken, ''New Perspectives in Iconology: Visual Studies and Anthropology'' (Iconologies) Brussels (AspEditions), 2012. ()
* B. Baert, "The Johannesschüssel as Andachtsbild. The Gaze, the Medium and the Senses", in ''Disembodied Heads in Medieval and Early Modern Culture'', ed.
Catrien Santing
Catharina Geertruida Santing (born 1958), commonly going by Catrien Santing is a Dutch medievalist. Her research focuses on cultural history and medical history in the late-medieval and early-modern Low Countries.
Career
Santing studied History ...
, B. Baert & Anita Traninger (Intersections. Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture, 28), Leiden: Brill, 2013, pp. 117–160. ()
* B. Baert, ''Late Mediaeval Enclosed Gardens of the Low Countries: Contributions to Gender and Artistic Expression'' (Studies in Iconology 2), Leuven: Peeters, 2015. ()
* B. Baert, ''Pneuma and the Visual arts in the Middle Ages and early Modernity'' (Art&Religion 5), Leuven-Walpole (Peeters), 2016. ()
* B. Baert, "Pentecost and the Senses. A Hermeneutical Contribution to the Visual Medium and the Sensorium in Early Medieval Manuscript Tradition", in ''Preaching after Easter'', eds. Johan Leemans & Rich Bishop, Leiden: Brill, 2016, pp. 346–370.
* B. Baert, ''Kairos or Occasion as Paradigm in the Visual Medium. Nachleben, Iconography, Hermeneutics'' Leuven: Peeters, 2016. ()
* B. Baert, ''In Response to Echo. Beyond Mimesis or Dissolution as Scopic Regime (with Special Attention to Camouflage)'' (Studies in Iconology, 6), Leuven-Walpole, 2016. ()
* B. Baert, ''Revisiting Salome’s Dance in Medieval and Early Modern Iconology'' (Studies in Iconology, 7), Leuven-Walpole, 2016. ()
* B. Baert, "Stains. Trace-Cloth-Symptom", in ''Textile. Journal of Cloth and Culture'', 15, 3, 2017, pp. 270–291.
* B. Baert, ''About Stains or the Image as Residue'' (Studies in Iconology, 10), Leuven-Walpole, 2017. ()
* B. Baert, "Marble and the Sea or Echo Emerging. (A Ricercar)", in ''Treasures of the sea. Art or Craft'', ed.
Avinoam Shalem
Avinoam Shalem (born 1959) is the Riggio Professor of the History of the Arts of Islam at Columbia University. He served as director of the American Academy in Rome from 2020 to 2021.
Biography
Shalem was born in Haifa, Israel in 1959. He receiv ...
, Espacio, (Tiempo y Forma, Serie VII, Historia del Arte, 5) 2017, pp. 35–54.
* B. Baert, "He or she who glimpses, desires, is wounded. A dialogue in the interspace between Aby Warburg and Georges Didi-Huberman", in ''Angelaki. Journal of the Theoretical Humanities'', 23, 4, 2018, pp. 47–79.
* B. Baert, ''What about Enthusiasm? A Rehabilitation. Pentecost, Pygmalion, Pathosformel'' (Studies in Iconology, 13), Leuven-Walpole, 2018. ()
* B. Baert, "Fragments" (Studies in Iconology, 14), ed. S. Heremans, Leuven-Walpole, 2018. ()
* B. Baert, ''Interruptions & Transitions. Essays on the Senses in Medieval and early Modern Visual Culture'' (Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, 14), Leiden, 2018. ()
* B. Baert, ''About Sieves and Sieving. Motif, Symbol, Technique, Paradigm'', Berlin, 2019. ()
* B. Baert, ''De uil in de grot. Gesprekken met beelden, kunstenaars en schrijvers'', Antwerp, 2019. ()
* B. Baert, ''The Weeping Rock. Revisiting Niobe through Paragone, Pathosformel and Petrification'' (Studies in Iconology, 17), Leuven-Walpole, 2020. ()
* B. Baert, ''Signed PAN. Erwin Panofsky’s (1892-1968) "The History of Art as a Humanistic Discipline"(Princeton, 1938)'' (Studies in Iconology, 18), Leuven-Walpole-Paris-Bristol, 2020. ()
* B. Baert, "Noli me tangere in the Codex Egberti (Reichenau, c. 977-93) and in the Gospel-Book of Otto III (Reichenau, 998-1000): Visual Exegesis in Context," in ''Illuminating the Middle Ages: Tributes to Prof. John Lowden'', eds. Laura Cleaver, Alixe Bovey, Leiden, 2020, pp. 36–5.
* B. Baert, "Afterlife Studies and the Occasio Grisaille in Mantua (School of Mantegna, 1495-1510)," in ''Ikon'', 13, 2020, pp. 95–108.
* B. Baert, "Life is Short, Art is Long, Crisis is Fleeting, Kairos or Weaving the Right Moment," in ''Textile. Journal of Cloth and Culture'', 2020, pp. 1–23.
References
External links
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List of all publicationsAcademia Europaea pageHaemorrhoïssa projectORCIDCurriculum Vitae
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1967 births
People from Turnhout
KU Leuven alumni
KU Leuven faculty
Belgian art historians
Living people
Members of Academia Europaea