J
E A N M.
F R E N C H
Edith C. Blum Professor of Art History
Bard College 1971-
Office: Fisher Annex 110
Tel.: (845) 758-7248
E-mail: french@bard.edu
Education:
B.A. Seton Hill College; Ph.D., Cornell University.
Honors and Awards (partial):
Recipient National Endowment for the Humanities Study Grant
(1992); American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (1978-79);
NEH Fellowship in Residence for College Teachers, Harvard
(1976-77);
numerous summer grants.
Publications:
Articles in Medieval France: An Encyclopedia; The Dictionary
of Art; Gesta;
The Brummer Collection of Medieval Art; Application of Science
in Examination
of Works of Art; National Endowment for the Humanities Institute
Resource
Book for the Teaching of Medieval Civilization: Studies in
Medieval Culture
Other
Professional Activities:
In addition to giving papers, acting as respondent, and organizing
sessions for numerous professional conferences both in the
U.S. and abroad, Professor French has been an invited guest
speaker at a number of universities and museums, including
Harvard University, Columbia, Duke University, Colgate, Queens
College CUNY, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Hermitage
Museum, St. Petersburg.
Special
Interests:
Professor French’s work has often focused on the iconography
of marginalized groups (heretics, lepers, etc.) in French
Romanesque Sculpture. She has also been instrumental in pioneering
the application of neutron activation analysis in provenance
studies of medieval French limestone sculpture and is a member
of the French-American Limestone Sculpture Provenance Project.
Courses
Taught:
Early Medieval Art and Architecture
Romanesque and Gothic Art and Architecture
The Gothic and the Gothic Revival
The Medieval Manuscript
Death, Heaven and Hell in Medieval Art
Seminar: The "Animal Style" in Art
Seminar: Hiberno-Saxon Art
Seminar: The Art of Medieval Spain
Seminar: Hiberno-Saxon Art
The Early Renaissance
The High Renaissance
Art of the Northern Renaissance
Seminar: The Golden Age of Venetian Painting
Seminar: Italian Renaissance Sculpture
Current
Course Offerings
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