Art, Art History, and Film Faculty
Nancy Netzer
Professor, Art History
Inaugural Robert L. and Judith T. Winston Director, 蝌蚪直播 Museum of Art
Nancy Netzer
Ph.D.
Contact
蝌蚪直播 Museum of Art, 308
Telephone: 617-552-2378
Email: nancy.netzer@bc.edu
ORCID
Education
- B.A., Connecticut College
- Ph.D., Harvard University
Courses
Early Medieval Art in Ireland and Britain
Museum of Art: History, Philosophy, and Practice
Loot: Collecting Art in Italy
Research Interests
Illuminated manuscripts, metalwork, sculpture, and material culture of the first millenium
Historical archaeology
Reception, collecting and display of medieval art
Nineteenth-century medievalism
History of collections and museums
Publications
Books
Editor with Jeffrey Hamburger, William Stoneman, Anne-Marie Eze, and Lisa Fagin Davis. 聽Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections, Chestnut Hill, MA, 2016.
贰诲颈迟辞谤,听Secular/Sacred, Chestnut Hill, 2006
Editor with Virginia Reinburg.聽Fragmented Devotion: Medieval Objects from the Schnutgen Museum in Cologne, Chestnut Hill, 2000.
Editor with Virginia Reinburg.聽Memory and the Middle Ages, Chestnut Hill, 1995.
Cultural Interplay in the Eighth Century: The Trier Gospels and the Making of a Scriptorium at Echternach, Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Medieval Objects in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Metalwork. Boston, 1991.
With Hanns Swarzenski,聽Medieval Objects in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Enamels and Glass, Boston, 1986.
Editor with Jeffrey Hamburger, Anne-Marie Eze, Lisa Fagin Davis, and William Stoneman,聽: New Research on Manuscripts in Boston Collections,聽PIMS,聽University of Toronto Press, 2021.
Articles and Book Chapters
鈥淭he Book of Durrow and the Lindisfarne Gospels鈥� in The Lindisfarne Gospels, New perspectives, Richard Gameson, ed. Leiden, 2017, pp. 166-182.
"Cloths of Ireland's New 'Golden Age': Creating Textiles for the Honan Chapel" in V. Kreilkamp, ed., The Arts and Crafts Movement: Making it Irish, Chestnut Hill, MA, 2016, pp. 101-116.
"Displaying Roman Britain in the British Museum" in Roman in the Provinces: Art on the Periphery of Empire, Lisa R. Brody and Gail L. Hoffman, eds., Chestnut Hill, MA, 2014, pp. 195-214.
鈥淭he Design and Decoration of Insular Gospel-Books and other Liturgical Manuscripts鈥� in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, volume I c. 400-c. 1100, Richard Gameson, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2012, pp. 225-243.
鈥淣ew Finds Versus the Beginning of the Narrative on Insular Gospel Books鈥�, in Insular and Anglo-Saxon Art and Thought in the Early Medieval Period, Index of Christian Art Princeton University, Occasional Papers, 13, Colum Hourihane, ed., Princeton, 2011, pp. 3-13.
鈥淭he 鈥楥eltic鈥� Bronzes from Dura Europos: Connections to Britain,鈥� in Dura Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity, Lisa Brody and Gail Hoffman, eds., Chestnut Hill, MA, 2011, pp. 283-294.
鈥淔raming the Book of Durrow inside/outside the Anglo-Saxon World鈥�, in Shaping Understanding: Form and Order in the Anglo-Saxon World, ed. L. Webster., Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History, 16, 2009, Oxford, pp. 65-78.
鈥淭he Rise of the Study of the History of Christian Art鈥� in M Brown, The Lion Companion to Christian Art, Oxford, 2007, pp. 297-299.
鈥淚nsular and Islamic Cosmophilic Responses to the Classical Past鈥� in S. Blair and J. Bloom, Cosmophilia: Islamic Art from the David Collection, Copenhagen, Chestnut Hill, MA, 2006, pp. 39-44.
鈥淪ecular鈥� and 鈥淪acred鈥� Objects from the Middle Ages: Illuminating the History of Classification鈥� in Secular/Sacred: 11th 鈥� 16th Century Works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, ed. Nancy Netzer, Chestnut Hill, MA, 2006, pp. 11-18.
"Art Full Ground: Unearthing an Irish Past," in Vera Kreilkamp, ed. Eire/Land, Chestnut Hill, MA, 2003, pp. 49-56.
"Style: A history of uses and abuses in the study of Insular Art," in Redknap, Edwards, Youngs, Lane and Knight, eds. Pattern and Purpose in Insular Art, Oxford, 2002, pp. 169-177.
"Collecting, Re/collecting, Contextualizing and Recontextualizing: Devotion to Fragments of the Middle Ages," Fragmented Devotion: Medieval Objects from the Schn眉tgen Museum, Cologne, Chestnut Hill, MA, 2000, pp. 17-30.
"Die Arbeitsmethoden der insularen Scriptorien Zwei Fallstudien: Lindisfarne und Echternach," in J. Schroeder, ed. Die Abtei Echternach 698-1998, Luxembourg, 1999, pp. 65-83.
"The Book of Durrow: The Northumbrian Connection," in J. Hawkes ed. The Golden Age of Northumbria, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1999.