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Barbara Baert
Class of the Arts
Membership: Member
Since: 2013
Title: Prof. dr.
Discipline: Iconology
History of art
History of art
Affiliation: Lid van de onderzoeksgroep Kunstwetenschappen van de Faculteit Letteren (KU Leuven)
Summary:
Barbara Baert is Professor of Art History at KU Leuven, Belgium. She has written numerous interdisciplinary publications in the field of the humanities. Her scholarship involves sacred topography, visual anthropology, relics and devotion, and medieval gender, as well as art theory and Forschungsgeschichte, such as the work of Aby Warburg.
Besides being a prolific author, Baert has been the director of several international research programs, such as: “Mary Magdalene and the Touching of Jesus. An Intra- and Interdisciplinary Investigation of the Interpretation of John 20:17,” financed by FWO (2004-2008); “The Woman with the Haemorrhage (Matthew 9:20-22; Mark 5:24-34; Luke 8:42b-48). An Iconological Study of the Interpretation of the Haemorrhoissa in Medieval Art,” funded by KU Leuven (2008-2012); “Caput Iohannis in Disco. Object-Medium-function,” co-sponsored by FWO, KU Leuven and the University of Vienna (2012-2016). She is currently leading the following programs: “Ornamenta Sacra. Iconology of Liturgical Objects,” financed by Belspo-Brain-be: Belgian Research Action Through Interdisciplinary networks in collaboration with UC Louvain and KIK/IRPA Institute for Cultural heritage (2017-2021); and “Kairós, or the Right Moment. Nachleben and Iconology,” funded by KU Leuven (2018-2022).
Baert is the founder and editor-in-chief of three book series: Studies in Iconology (Peeters Publishers), Art&Religion (Peeters Publishers), and Iconologies (ASP Editions). Barbara Baert is part of the editorial board of Brepols - Series - IKON Studies and La rivista di engramma (open access).
Her recent books include: Pneuma and the Visual Medium in the Middle Ages and Early Modernity. Essays on Wind, Ruach, Incarnation, Odour, Stains, Movement, Kairos, Web and Silence (Peeters: 2016); Fragments (A celebratory glossary of her oeuvre) (Peeters: 2018); Interruptions & Transitions. Collected Essays on the Senses in Medieval and Early Modern Visual Culture (Brill: 2019), and About Sieves and Sieving. Motif, Symbol, Technique, Paradigm (De Gruyter: 2019), From Kairos to Occasio along Fortuna. Text / Image / Afterlife, (Brepols & Harvey Miller, 2021); The Gaze from Above. Reflections on Cosmic Eyes in Visual Culture, (Art & Religion, 11), Leuven-Walpole (Peeters Publishers), 2021; Looking Into the Rain. Magic-Moisture-Medium, (De Gruyter: 2022, 233 pp.). At press is Back to the Marshes. Meanderings on Myth, Metho, and Matter (De Gruyter), 2024.
Awards:
Professor Baert has been awarded several times during her career. In 2006, she was the Laureate of the Royal Flemish Academy in Belgium for an outstanding scientific career before the age of 40. Since 2014, Baert has been made a member ad vitam at the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium, and in 2016 she has also been granted a lifelong membership at the prestigious Academia Europaea. In that same year, Barbara Baert was awarded the prestigious Francqui Prize for her bold approach to, and her pioneering work in medieval visual culture.
As the Francqui jury report proclaims: “Her truly innovative approach to the iconology of Mediaeval Art, which has placed into the foreground the senses, materiality, and various aspects of the female and male body, and iconographic themes that have been neglected in the past, has deeply transformed the way European religious and secular art of the Middle Ages is viewed.”
In November 2017, she was knighted in recognition of her public service as Commandeur in the Belgian Order of Leopold.
Moreover, Barbara Baert has been a fellow Professor at The Internationales Kolleg für Kulturforschung und Medienphilosophie (IKKM) at the Weimar Bauhaus Universität (2015), at the Istituto di Studi Avanzati at the Università di Bologna (2018), and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (2019).
In 2021 Barbara Baert was holder of the James Loeb Lecture at ZIKG in München: https://www.zikg.eu/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/2021/online-james-loeb-lecture-2021-barbara-baert
In 2023 Barbara Baert was holder of the Aby Warburg Professur in Hamburg, in invitation by the Aby Warburg-Stiftung http://www.warburg-haus.de/das-warburg-haus-heute/
http://www.warburg-haus.de/aby-warburg-stiftung/
In 2024 Barbara Baert was holder of the Dahlem Humanities Center Lectures, Freie Universität Berlin, Dahlem Humanities Center Lectures • Dahlem Humanities Center (DHC) • Freie Universität Berlin (fu-berlin.de)
In 2024 Barbara Baert was fellow at the Centre André Chastel - Université de Sorbonne in Paris. https://www.centrechastel.sorbonne-universite.fr/membres/chercheurs-et-chercheuses-invitees
Données - CAC - PLEMO3D - RegardCrosie_BBAERT_04032024.mp4 (sorbonne-universite.fr)
Honorary titles:
Commandeur in de Leopoldsorde (KB 13 juli 2017)
Chairs:
In 2023 Barbara Baert was holder of the Aby Warburg Professur in Hamburg, in invitation by the Aby Warburg-Stiftung http://www.warburg-haus.de/das-warburg-haus-heute/
http://www.warburg-haus.de/aby-warburg-stiftung/
Barbara Baert
Class of the Arts
Membership: Member
Since: 2013
Title: Prof. dr.
Discipline: Iconology
History of art
History of art
Affiliation: Lid van de onderzoeksgroep Kunstwetenschappen van de Faculteit Letteren (KU Leuven)
Summary:
Barbara Baert is Professor of Art History at KU Leuven, Belgium. She has written numerous interdisciplinary publications in the field of the humanities. Her scholarship involves sacred topography, visual anthropology, relics and devotion, and medieval gender, as well as art theory and Forschungsgeschichte, such as the work of Aby Warburg.
Besides being a prolific author, Baert has been the director of several international research programs, such as: “Mary Magdalene and the Touching of Jesus. An Intra- and Interdisciplinary Investigation of the Interpretation of John 20:17,” financed by FWO (2004-2008); “The Woman with the Haemorrhage (Matthew 9:20-22; Mark 5:24-34; Luke 8:42b-48). An Iconological Study of the Interpretation of the Haemorrhoissa in Medieval Art,” funded by KU Leuven (2008-2012); “Caput Iohannis in Disco. Object-Medium-function,” co-sponsored by FWO, KU Leuven and the University of Vienna (2012-2016). She is currently leading the following programs: “Ornamenta Sacra. Iconology of Liturgical Objects,” financed by Belspo-Brain-be: Belgian Research Action Through Interdisciplinary networks in collaboration with UC Louvain and KIK/IRPA Institute for Cultural heritage (2017-2021); and “Kairós, or the Right Moment. Nachleben and Iconology,” funded by KU Leuven (2018-2022).
Baert is the founder and editor-in-chief of three book series: Studies in Iconology (Peeters Publishers), Art&Religion (Peeters Publishers), and Iconologies (ASP Editions). Barbara Baert is part of the editorial board of Brepols - Series - IKON Studies and La rivista di engramma (open access).
Her recent books include: Pneuma and the Visual Medium in the Middle Ages and Early Modernity. Essays on Wind, Ruach, Incarnation, Odour, Stains, Movement, Kairos, Web and Silence (Peeters: 2016); Fragments (A celebratory glossary of her oeuvre) (Peeters: 2018); Interruptions & Transitions. Collected Essays on the Senses in Medieval and Early Modern Visual Culture (Brill: 2019), and About Sieves and Sieving. Motif, Symbol, Technique, Paradigm (De Gruyter: 2019), From Kairos to Occasio along Fortuna. Text / Image / Afterlife, (Brepols & Harvey Miller, 2021); The Gaze from Above. Reflections on Cosmic Eyes in Visual Culture, (Art & Religion, 11), Leuven-Walpole (Peeters Publishers), 2021; Looking Into the Rain. Magic-Moisture-Medium, (De Gruyter: 2022, 233 pp.). At press is Back to the Marshes. Meanderings on Myth, Metho, and Matter (De Gruyter), 2024.
Awards:
Professor Baert has been awarded several times during her career. In 2006, she was the Laureate of the Royal Flemish Academy in Belgium for an outstanding scientific career before the age of 40. Since 2014, Baert has been made a member ad vitam at the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium, and in 2016 she has also been granted a lifelong membership at the prestigious Academia Europaea. In that same year, Barbara Baert was awarded the prestigious Francqui Prize for her bold approach to, and her pioneering work in medieval visual culture.
As the Francqui jury report proclaims: “Her truly innovative approach to the iconology of Mediaeval Art, which has placed into the foreground the senses, materiality, and various aspects of the female and male body, and iconographic themes that have been neglected in the past, has deeply transformed the way European religious and secular art of the Middle Ages is viewed.”
In November 2017, she was knighted in recognition of her public service as Commandeur in the Belgian Order of Leopold.
Moreover, Barbara Baert has been a fellow Professor at The Internationales Kolleg für Kulturforschung und Medienphilosophie (IKKM) at the Weimar Bauhaus Universität (2015), at the Istituto di Studi Avanzati at the Università di Bologna (2018), and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (2019).
In 2021 Barbara Baert was holder of the James Loeb Lecture at ZIKG in München: https://www.zikg.eu/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/2021/online-james-loeb-lecture-2021-barbara-baert
In 2023 Barbara Baert was holder of the Aby Warburg Professur in Hamburg, in invitation by the Aby Warburg-Stiftung http://www.warburg-haus.de/das-warburg-haus-heute/
http://www.warburg-haus.de/aby-warburg-stiftung/
In 2024 Barbara Baert was holder of the Dahlem Humanities Center Lectures, Freie Universität Berlin, Dahlem Humanities Center Lectures • Dahlem Humanities Center (DHC) • Freie Universität Berlin (fu-berlin.de)
In 2024 Barbara Baert was fellow at the Centre André Chastel - Université de Sorbonne in Paris. https://www.centrechastel.sorbonne-universite.fr/membres/chercheurs-et-chercheuses-invitees
Données - CAC - PLEMO3D - RegardCrosie_BBAERT_04032024.mp4 (sorbonne-universite.fr)
Honorary titles:
Commandeur in de Leopoldsorde (KB 13 juli 2017)
Chairs:
In 2023 Barbara Baert was holder of the Aby Warburg Professur in Hamburg, in invitation by the Aby Warburg-Stiftung http://www.warburg-haus.de/das-warburg-haus-heute/
http://www.warburg-haus.de/aby-warburg-stiftung/
Barbara Baert
Class of the Arts
Membership: Member
Since: 2013
Title: Prof. dr.
Discipline: Iconology
History of art
History of art
Affiliation: Lid van de onderzoeksgroep Kunstwetenschappen van de Faculteit Letteren (KU Leuven)
Summary:
Barbara Baert is Professor of Art History at KU Leuven, Belgium. She has written numerous interdisciplinary publications in the field of the humanities. Her scholarship involves sacred topography, visual anthropology, relics and devotion, and medieval gender, as well as art theory and Forschungsgeschichte, such as the work of Aby Warburg.
Besides being a prolific author, Baert has been the director of several international research programs, such as: “Mary Magdalene and the Touching of Jesus. An Intra- and Interdisciplinary Investigation of the Interpretation of John 20:17,” financed by FWO (2004-2008); “The Woman with the Haemorrhage (Matthew 9:20-22; Mark 5:24-34; Luke 8:42b-48). An Iconological Study of the Interpretation of the Haemorrhoissa in Medieval Art,” funded by KU Leuven (2008-2012); “Caput Iohannis in Disco. Object-Medium-function,” co-sponsored by FWO, KU Leuven and the University of Vienna (2012-2016). She is currently leading the following programs: “Ornamenta Sacra. Iconology of Liturgical Objects,” financed by Belspo-Brain-be: Belgian Research Action Through Interdisciplinary networks in collaboration with UC Louvain and KIK/IRPA Institute for Cultural heritage (2017-2021); and “Kairós, or the Right Moment. Nachleben and Iconology,” funded by KU Leuven (2018-2022).
Baert is the founder and editor-in-chief of three book series: Studies in Iconology (Peeters Publishers), Art&Religion (Peeters Publishers), and Iconologies (ASP Editions). Barbara Baert is part of the editorial board of Brepols - Series - IKON Studies and La rivista di engramma (open access).
Her recent books include: Pneuma and the Visual Medium in the Middle Ages and Early Modernity. Essays on Wind, Ruach, Incarnation, Odour, Stains, Movement, Kairos, Web and Silence (Peeters: 2016); Fragments (A celebratory glossary of her oeuvre) (Peeters: 2018); Interruptions & Transitions. Collected Essays on the Senses in Medieval and Early Modern Visual Culture (Brill: 2019), and About Sieves and Sieving. Motif, Symbol, Technique, Paradigm (De Gruyter: 2019), From Kairos to Occasio along Fortuna. Text / Image / Afterlife, (Brepols & Harvey Miller, 2021); The Gaze from Above. Reflections on Cosmic Eyes in Visual Culture, (Art & Religion, 11), Leuven-Walpole (Peeters Publishers), 2021; Looking Into the Rain. Magic-Moisture-Medium, (De Gruyter: 2022, 233 pp.). At press is Back to the Marshes. Meanderings on Myth, Metho, and Matter (De Gruyter), 2024.
Awards:
Professor Baert has been awarded several times during her career. In 2006, she was the Laureate of the Royal Flemish Academy in Belgium for an outstanding scientific career before the age of 40. Since 2014, Baert has been made a member ad vitam at the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium, and in 2016 she has also been granted a lifelong membership at the prestigious Academia Europaea. In that same year, Barbara Baert was awarded the prestigious Francqui Prize for her bold approach to, and her pioneering work in medieval visual culture.
As the Francqui jury report proclaims: “Her truly innovative approach to the iconology of Mediaeval Art, which has placed into the foreground the senses, materiality, and various aspects of the female and male body, and iconographic themes that have been neglected in the past, has deeply transformed the way European religious and secular art of the Middle Ages is viewed.”
In November 2017, she was knighted in recognition of her public service as Commandeur in the Belgian Order of Leopold.
Moreover, Barbara Baert has been a fellow Professor at The Internationales Kolleg für Kulturforschung und Medienphilosophie (IKKM) at the Weimar Bauhaus Universität (2015), at the Istituto di Studi Avanzati at the Università di Bologna (2018), and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (2019).
In 2021 Barbara Baert was holder of the James Loeb Lecture at ZIKG in München: https://www.zikg.eu/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/2021/online-james-loeb-lecture-2021-barbara-baert
In 2023 Barbara Baert was holder of the Aby Warburg Professur in Hamburg, in invitation by the Aby Warburg-Stiftung http://www.warburg-haus.de/das-warburg-haus-heute/
http://www.warburg-haus.de/aby-warburg-stiftung/
In 2024 Barbara Baert was holder of the Dahlem Humanities Center Lectures, Freie Universität Berlin, Dahlem Humanities Center Lectures • Dahlem Humanities Center (DHC) • Freie Universität Berlin (fu-berlin.de)
In 2024 Barbara Baert was fellow at the Centre André Chastel - Université de Sorbonne in Paris. https://www.centrechastel.sorbonne-universite.fr/membres/chercheurs-et-chercheuses-invitees
Données - CAC - PLEMO3D - RegardCrosie_BBAERT_04032024.mp4 (sorbonne-universite.fr)
Honorary titles:
Commandeur in de Leopoldsorde (KB 13 juli 2017)
Chairs:
In 2023 Barbara Baert was holder of the Aby Warburg Professur in Hamburg, in invitation by the Aby Warburg-Stiftung http://www.warburg-haus.de/das-warburg-haus-heute/
http://www.warburg-haus.de/aby-warburg-stiftung/