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Barbara Baert (born 1967,Turnhout) is a Belgian art historian, and professor of art history at KU Leuven. In 2016 Baert earned the prestigious Francquiprijs [nl], which is yearly awarded by the Francqui-Stichting [nl] to a scientist in human, exact and biological-medical sciences.
Barbara Baert
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| Born | 1967 (age 56–57)
Turnhout, Antwerp, Belgium
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| Alma mater | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |
| Known for | Baert, B. Looking Into the Rain. Magic - Moisture - Medium. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. Baert, B., Claes, M-C. & Dekoninck, R. (Eds.) Ornamenta Sacra. Late Medieval and Early Modern Liturgical Objects in a European Context. Art & Religion 13. Leuven: Peeters, 2022. |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Art history (medieval iconology) |
| Institutions | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |
| Thesis | Een erfenis van heilig hout of de neerslag van het teruggevonden kruis in tekst en beeld tijdens de Middeleeuwen: een iconologische studie van de Kruislegende (1997) |
| Doctoral advisor | Maurits Smeyers |
| Website | https://www.kuleuven.be/wieiswie/en/person/00004564 |
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 Medieval and Renaissance Art] (KU Leuven).[1][2]
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, including 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)[3] 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), 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). Since January 2014 she has been a life member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. She is also a member of the Academia Europaea. Between April and September 2015, she held a fellowship at the Internationale Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie (IKKM).[4] As coordinator of the Iconology Research Group, Baert is the editor-in-chief of three peer-reviewed series: Iconologies (ASP editions),[5] Studies in Iconology (Peeters Publishers),[6][7] and Art & Religion (Peeters Publishers).[8][9]
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[10] and the Francqui Prize for her pioneering work in iconology and medieval visual culture.[11][12] In 2017 she received the honour of Commander of the Order of Léopold.[13] In 2019 Baert became a member in residence of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) at Princeton.[14] In 2020 Barbara Baert was a fellow at the Berlin Center for Advances Studies Bildevidenz and in 2021 she was the holder of the James Loeb Lecture at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, München. There she gave a lecture 'How Kairos transformed into Occasio (Grisaille, School of Mantegna, 1495–1510)' about the Kairos/Occasio motif. With her paper on the same motif, she offers the first complete status quaestionis on the meanings attributed to the grisaille from the first hypothesis of Aby Warburg (1866-1929) to the present. In 2023 Barbara Baert will take on the prestigious role of Warburg-Professur[15] at the Warburg Haus[16] in Hamburg.
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