Elizabeth Sears
Elizabeth Sears | |
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| Born | 1952 (age 71–72) |
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| Alma mater | Duke University and Yale University |
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| Discipline | Art history |
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| Institutions | University of Michigan |
Elizabeth Langsford Sears (born 1952)[1] is Professor Emerita, George H. Forsyth Jr. Collegiate History of Art at the University of Michigan. She is known for the study of European medieval art and the historiography of art.[2]
Education
[edit]Sears attended Duke University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1974. She earned her master's degree and Ph.D. from Yale University in 1982,[3] writing on "the ages of man" under professor Walter Cahn.[4]
Career
[edit]Sears is the Professor Emerita, George H. Forsyth Jr. Collegiate History of Art at University of Michigan.[5][6] She also taught at the Universität Hamburg and Princeton University.[3]
Selected books
[edit]- Verzetteln als Methode: Der humanistische Ikonologe William S. Heckscher (2008), co-authored with Charlotte Schoell-Glass, Hamburger Forschungen zur Kunstgeschichte, Akademie Verlag.[7]
- With Edgar Wind, The Religious Symbolism of Michelangelo: The Sistine Ceiling (2000), editor, Oxford University Press.[8]
- The Ages of Man: Medieval Interpretations of the Life Cycle (1986), Princeton University Press.[9] (winner of the John Nicholas Brown Prize of the Medieval Academy of America in 1990)[10]
Awards and honors
[edit]Sears is the recipient of numerous awards including a Paul Mellon Centre Fellowship at the British School at Rome in 2004,[11] a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library, 2019-2020.[5][3] Also in 2010 Sears was the Paul Mellon Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.[12]
References
[edit]- ^ "Elizabeth Sears". Prosto do informacji - katalog zbiorów polskich bibliotek naukowych. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
- ^ "Elizabeth Sears". American Academy. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
- ^ a b c "Elizabeth Sears". John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
- ^ Elizabeth Lanford Sears, "The Ages of Man in Medieval Art." 2 volumes. Ph.D. dissertation--Yale University, 1982. ProQuest no. 303261219.
- ^ a b "Past Fellows 2019-2020". The New York Public Library. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
- ^ "Elizabeth Sears". U-M LSA History of Art. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
- ^ Schoell-Glass, Charlotte; Sears, Elizabeth (12 November 2012). Verzetteln als Methode (in German). Akademie Verlag. doi:10.1524/9783050062167. ISBN 978-3-05-004449-1. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
- ^ Wind, Edgar; Sears, Elizabeth (2000). The religious symbolism of Michelangelo: the Sistine ceiling. Oxford University Press. OCLC 45580969. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
- ^ Sears, Elizabeth (19 February 2019). "The Ages of Man". Princeton University Press. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
- ^ "Recent Recipients of the John Nicholas Brown Prize". The Medieval Academy of America. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
- ^ "Award-holders before 2005". The British School at Rome. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
- ^ "Center 31" (PDF). Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. National Gallery of Art. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
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