Barbara Greenhouse Lane (born 1941) is an art historian, and chair of the art department in the graduate studies and research program at

Queens College, City University of New York Queens College (QC) is a public college in the Queens borough of New York City. It is part of the City University of New York system. Its 80-acre campus is primarily located in Flushing, Queens. It has a student body representing more than ...

. She is a scholar of the

Northern Renaissance The Northern Renaissance was the Renaissance that occurred in Europe north of the Alps. From the last years of the 15th century, its Renaissance spread around Europe. Called the Northern Renaissance because it occurred north of the Italian Renais ...

early Netherlandish painting Early Netherlandish painting, traditionally known as the Flemish Primitives, refers to the work of artists active in the Burgundian and Habsburg Netherlands during the 15th- and 16th-century Northern Renaissance period. It flourished especia ...

, and

medieval art The medieval art of the Western world covers a vast scope of time and place, over 1000 years of art in Europe, and at certain periods in Western Asia and Northern Africa. It includes major art movements and periods, national and regional art, ge ...

Education

Lane received her doctorate in 1970 from the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest- ...

. She taught at the

University of Maryland The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of ...

and at

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was ...

during the 70s. Lane has been at Queens College since 1979, and in the graduate program since 2000. She has chaired panels at four annual meetings of the

College Art Association The College Art Association of America (CAA) is the principal organization in the United States for professionals in the visual arts, from students to art historians to emeritus faculty. Founded in 1911, it "promotes these arts and their understa ...

Career

Lane has performed extensive research on

Hans Memling Hans Memling (also spelled Memlinc; c. 1430 – 11 August 1494) was a painter active in Flanders, who worked in the tradition of Early Netherlandish painting. He was born in the Middle Rhine region and probably spent his childhood in Mainz. He ...

; she was awarded grants from the

National Endowment for the Humanities The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency of the U.S. government, established by thNational Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965(), dedicated to supporting research, education, preserv ...

in 1987 and 1990 in order to further her work. Her paper "The Patron and the Pirate: The Mystery of Memling's Gdańsk ''Last Judgment''" was published in ''

Art Bulletin The College Art Association of America (CAA) is the principal organization in the United States for professionals in the visual arts, from students to art historians to emeritus faculty. Founded in 1911, it "promotes these arts and their understa ...

'' in 1991. On October 26, 2005 she delivered a lecture entitled "Memling’s Influence on Italian Portraiture from Leonardo to Raphael" at the

Frick Museum The Frick Collection is an art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection (normally at the Henry Clay Frick House, currently at the Frick Madison) features Old Master paintings and European fine and decorative arts, including works by B ...

.Frick Collection is the Exclusive U.S. Venue of the Most Comprehensive Exhibition of Memling’s Portraits
(PDF). Frick Collection. Retrieved on September 30, 2013.

Selected works

*1978. "Rogier's Saint John and Miraflores Altarpieces Reconsidered." ''

,'' Vol. 60, No. 4, p. 655–672 *1984. ''The Altar and the Altarpiece: Sacramental Themes in Early Netherlandish Painting.'' New York: Icon Editions. *1988. "Sacred versus profane in early Netherlandish Painting." '' Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art'', Vol. 18, No. 3, p. 106–115 *1989. "''Requiem aeternam dona eis'': The Beaune ''Last Judgment'' and the Mass of the Dead." ''Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art,'' Vol 19, No. 3, p. 167–180 *1991. "The Patron and the Pirate: The Mystery of Memling's Gdańsk ''Last Judgment''." ''Art Bulletin,'' Vol. 73, No. 4, p. 623–640

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lane, Barbara G. American art historians Queens College, City University of New York faculty Living people American women historians University of Pennsylvania alumni Rutgers University faculty 1941 births Women art historians 21st-century American women