Susie Nash is the Deborah Loeb Brice Professor of Renaissance Art at the

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, London.Susie Nash.
The Courtauld Institute, 2013. Retrieved 21 April 2013
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(BA 1986, PhD 1993) she has been at the Courtauld. She is an expert on the art 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 ...

, specialising in

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 especiall ...

and

illuminated manuscripts An illuminated manuscript is a formally prepared document where the text is often supplemented with flourishes such as borders and miniature illustrations. Often used in the Roman Catholic Church for prayers, liturgical services and psalms, the ...

and 15th century sculpture. Professor Nash is known for her work on the Chartreuse de Champmol in

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, and in particular the Great Cross, or

Well of Moses The Well of Moses (French: ''Puits de Moïse'') is a monumental sculpture recognised as the masterpiece of the Dutch artist Claus Sluter (1340–1405–06), assisted by his nephew Claus de Werve. It was executed by Sluter and his workshop in ...

, by

Claus Sluter Claus Sluter (1340s in Haarlem – 1405 or 1406 in Dijon) was a Dutch sculptor, living in the Duchy of Burgundy from about 1380. He was the most important northern European sculptor of his age and is considered a pioneer of the "northern reali ...

and

Jean Malouel Jean Malouel, or Jan Maelwael in his native Dutch, ( 1365 – 1415) was a Dutch artist who was the court painter of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy and his successor John the Fearless, working in the International Gothic style. Documented li ...

, published in a series of three articles in the

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.Nash, S., ‘Claus Sluter’s Well of Moses for the Chartreuse de Champmol reconsidered,’ Parts I, II and III, The Burlington Magazine, vol 147 (2005), pp. 798-809; vol. 148 (2006), pp. 456-467; vol. 150 (2008), pp. 724-741 She is a founder member of the Research Centre for Illuminated Manuscripts and the Courtauld Sculptural Processes Study Group, and a Trustee of th
Caroline Villers Research Fellowship

Selected publications

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with some available as PDFs. *''Trade in Artists' Materials. Markets and Commerce in Europe to 1700'', co-editor with Jo Kirby and Joanna Cannon, Archetype Publications, London, 2010. *''Northern Renaissance Art'', Oxford,

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, 2008; part of the

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series. *‘Claus Sluter’s Well of Moses for the Chartreuse de Champmol reconsidered,’ Parts I, II and III, ''The

'', vol 147 (2005), pp. 798–809; vol. 148 (2006), pp. 456–467; vol. 150 (2008), pp. 724–741 *''Between France and Flanders: Manuscript Illumination in Amiens in the Fifteenth Century'', British Library Press and

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, London and Toronto, 1999. * "The Lord’s Crucifix of Costly Workmanship: Colour, Collaboration and the Making of Meaning on the Well of Moses" in ''Circumlitio. The Polychromy of Antique and Late Medieval Sculpture'', ed. V. Brinkmann, O. Primavesi and M. Hollein (Frankfurt am Main, 2010), pp. 356–381
full PDF

References

Living people British art historians Academics of the Courtauld Institute of Art Year of birth missing (living people) Alumni of the University of Reading Women art historians Scholars of Netherlandish art British women historians {{UK-historian-stub