Elliott D. Wise Assistant Professor of Art History and Curatorial Studies,

CURRICULUM VITAE

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Department of Comparative Arts and Letters 3048 JFSB Brigham Young University Provo, UT 84602 Tel: 801-422-7294 (office) Fax: 801-422-0305 [email protected]

RESEARCH FIELDS:

Northern Renaissance and Medieval art; devotion and liturgy; Christological, Marian, and Eucharistic imagery; visual exegesis; art and the spiritual tradition of the religious orders.

EDUCATION:

Ph.D., Art History, 2016 Emory University, Atlanta Dissertation: “Painterly Vernacular and Pictorial Piety: Rogier van der Weyden, Robert Campin, and Jan van Ruusbroec” (adviser: Walter S. Melion; committee members: Elizabeth Carson Pastan, C. Jean Campbell, and Sarah McPhee)

M.A., Art History and Curatorial Studies, 2009 Brigham Young University, Provo Master’s Thesis: “Robert Campin’s Betrothal of the Virgin: Constructing Devotion in Fifteenth- Century Flanders” (adviser: Martha M. Peacock; committee members: Mark J. Johnson and Heather Belnap Jensen)

B.A., Art History and Curatorial Studies (major), English (minor), 2007 Brigham Young University, Provo Senior Thesis: “Building the Mystical Church: Iconography of Construction and Materials in the Prado’s Betrothal of the Virgin” (adviser: Martha M. Peacock)

EMPLOYMENT:

Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University, Provo, 2016-present Instructor, Brigham Young University, Provo, 2015-2016 Graduate Teaching Associate, Emory University, Atlanta, 2011 and 2013 Graduate Section Leader, Emory University, Atlanta, 2009-2010 Graduate Instructor, Brigham Young University, Provo, 2009

Teaching Assistant, Brigham Young University, Provo, 2005-2009

LANGUAGES:

French, Italian, Dutch, German (reading knowledge), Japanese, Latin

HONORS AND AWARDS:

Jane and Morgan Whitney Dissertation Fellowship, Department of European Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, supervisor: Maryan W. Ainsworth, 2013–2014

Honorary Belgian American Educational Foundation Fellowship, 2013–2014

Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Object-Centered Curatorial Research, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 2013

Samuel H. Kress Scholarship, CUNY Latin Institute, 2010 (declined)

Golden Key International Honour Society Invitation, 2009 (declined)

Woodruff Fellowship, Emory University, Atlanta, 2009–2015

Brigham Young University Graduate Research Fellowship, 2008

Magna cum laude graduation, Brigham Young University, Provo, 2007

PUBLICATIONS:

Articles: “‘To Do Justly and To Love Mercy’: Arbitrating Divine Law in Early Modern Art.” Clark Memorandum (Fall 2019): 32–43.

“Cycles of Memory and Circular Compassion in a Germanic Passion Diptych.” Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art 10.1 (Winter 2018) DOI: 10.5092/jhna.2018.10.1.1 Available at https://jhna.org/articles/cycles-memory-circular-compassion-germanic-passion- diptych/

“‘An Odor of Sanctity’: The Iconography, Magic and Ritual of Egyptian Incense.” Studia Antiqua: A Student Journal for the Study of the Ancient World 7 (Spring 2009): 67–80.

“Between Mount Carmel and Piazza Mercato: The Brown Madonna of Naples.” Journal of International Internship Research 1 (Fall 2008): 76–92.

Book Chapters: “‘Hidden Sons’, Baptism, and Vernacular Mysticism in Rogier van der Weyden’s St. John Triptych.” In Rethinking the Dialogue Between the Visual and the Textual. Methodological

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Approaches to the Relationships Between Religious Art and Literature (ca. 1400-1700), ed. Ingrid Falque, Agnès Guiderdoni, and Geert Warnar. Leiden: Brill (accepted for publication, anticipated publication 2019).

“Amber, Blood, and the Holy Face of Jesus: The Materiality of Devotion in Late Medieval Bruges,” co-authored with Matthew Havili. In Quid est sacramentum? Visualizing Sacramental Mystery in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1700, ed. Walter S. Melion. Elizabeth Pastan, and Lee Palmer Wandel, 320–353. Leiden: Brill, 2019.

“Rogier van der Weyden and Jan van Ruusbroec: Reading, Rending, and Re-Fashioning the ‘Twice-Dyed’ Veil of Blood in the Escorial Crucifixion.” In Imago Exegetica: Visual Images as Exegetical Instruments, 1400–1700, ed. Walter S. Melion, James Clifton, and Michel Weemans, 387–422. Leiden: Brill, 2014.

“Madonna dell’Arco and the Byzantine Interface in Southern Italy.” In Quaderni della Ricera Scientifica: Serie Beni Culturali, ed. Gennaro Carillo, Piero Craveri, and Massimiliano Marazzi. Vol. 14. Apolline Project. Vol. 1. Studies of Vesuvius' North Slope and the Bay of Naples, ed. Girolamo F. De Simone and Roger T. Macfarlane, 354–364. Naples: Suor Orsola Benincasa nell’Università, 2009.

"From Marketplace to Mount Carmel: Eastern Pageantry and the Spectacle of Folk Religion on the Bay of Naples." In Pageants and Processions: Image and Idiom as Spectacle, ed. Herman du Toit. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009.

“The Black Madonna of Częstochowa: Resistance and Redemption in Communist Poland.” In Art and Spirituality: The Visual Culture of Christian Faith, ed. Herman du Toit and Doris R. Dant, 159–171. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2008.

Catalogue Contributions:

“The Holy Blood of Bruges.” In Walter S. Melion and James Clifton, Through a Glass Darkly: Allegory & Faith in Netherlandish Prints from Lucas Van Leyden to Rembrandt, 202–203. Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2019.

Reviews: “Lynn F. Jacobs, Thresholds and Boundaries: Liminality n Netherlandish Art (1385–1530) (London; New York: Routledge, 2018).” Renaissance Quarterly, forthcoming.

“Emily S. Thelen, ed., The Seven Sorrows Confraternity of Brussels: Drama, Ceremony, and Art Patronage (16th-17th Centuries) (Turnhout: Brepols, 2015).” Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews, published April 2017: https://hnanews.org/hnar/reviews/seven-sorrows-confraternity- brussels-drama-ceremony-art-patronage-16th-17th-centuries-studies-european-urban-history- 1100-1800-37/

“Stephen H. Webb and Alonzo L. Gaskill, Catholic and Mormon: A Theological Conversation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015).” BYU Studies 56:1 (2017): 171-175.

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Other: “Early Netherlandish Art,” co-authored with Bret Rothstein. In Oxford Bibliographies in Renaissance and Reformation, ed. Margaret King. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

WORKS IN PROGRESS:

Books: Painterly Vernacular and Pictorial Piety: Rogier van der Weyden, Robert Campin, and Jan van Ruusbroec (under advanced contract with Brill; anticipated completion 2019).

Edited Volumes: Marian Images in Context: Devotions, Doctrines, and Cults, ed. James Clifton, Barbara Haeger, and Elliott Wise. Leiden: Brill (invited publication, anticipated submission to the publisher at the end of 2019).

Book Chapters: “Our Lady of Grace: A Holy War for Devotional Hegemony.” In Marian Images in Context: Devotions, Doctrines, and Cults, ed. James Clifton, Barbara Haeger, and Elliott Wise. Leiden: Brill (essay contribution to my co-edited publication, anticipated submission to the publisher at the end of 2019).

“Introduction.” In Marian Images in Context: Devotions, Doctrines, and Cults, ed. James Clifton, Barbara Haeger, and Elliott Wise. Leiden: Brill (I will be writing the volume’s introduction either alone or with the assistance of James Clifton, anticipated submission to the publisher at the end of 2019).

PAPERS:

“Epiphanies of Flesh and Light: Material and Liturgy in the Chasuble of the Golden Fleece.” Renaissance Society of America, Session: “Objects of the Cult. Liturgy/Devotion and Its Instruments in Early Modern Europe,” Philadelphia, March, 2020

“Robert Campin and Jan van Ruusbroec: Spiritual Conflagrations and Ekphrastic Mysticism.” Ninth Triennial Lovis Corinth Colloquium: “Ekphrastic Image-Making in Early Modern Europe and the Americas,” Emory University, Atlanta, December, 2019

“‘Worthy Vestment for the Sovereign Priest’: Allegories of Marian Priesthood in the Amiens Confraternity of Puy Notre-Dame.” Sixteenth Century Society Conference, Session: “Religious Allegory in the Low Countries,” St. Louis, October, 2019

“Spiritual Conflagrations in the Parabolic Mysticism of Robert Campin and Jan van Ruusbroec.” Renaissance Society of America, Session: “Parables and Parable-Formation in Early Modern Image-Making,” Toronto, March, 2019

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“Substances of Devotion: Politics and Piety in Late Medieval Holy Face Ambers.” Sixteenth Century Society Conference, Albuquerque, November, 2018

“Our Lady of Grace: A Holy War for Devotional Hegemony.” Sixteenth Century Society Conference, Session: “Marian Images in Context: Devotions, Doctrines, and Cults,” Milwaukee, October, 2017

“Mystery, Mysticism, and the Sacrament of Baptism in Rogier van der Weyden’s St. John Triptych.” Renaissance Society of America, Session: “Mysteria et Sacramenta: On the Representation of Mysteries,” Boston, March, 2016

“Mysticism and Marian Mediation in Rogier van der Weyden’s Miraflores Triptych of the Virgin and the Philadelphia Crucifixion Panels.” Renaissance Society of America, Session: “Images and Texts as Spiritual Instruments 1400-1600: A Reassessment,” Humboldt Universität, Berlin, March, 2015

“‘Living Mirrors,’ the Window of the Eye, and Mystical Figurations in the Mérode Triptych.” Sixteenth Century Society Conference, Session: “Figurative Language and the Visual Arts in Northern Europe,” New Orleans, October, 2014

“‘Living Mirrors’ and the Eucharistic Christ Child in the Mérode Triptych.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Fellows Colloquium, Session: “Reading the Sacred,” New York City, April, 2014

“Sacramental Vision and the Eucharistic Christ Child in the Mérode Triptych.” Middle Atlantic Symposium in the History of Art, 44th Annual Session, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., March, 2014

“The High Museum’s Christ Carrying the Cross: Devotion to the Holy Face along the Via Dolorosa.” Recruitment Colloquium, Emory University, Atlanta, February, 2014

“The Amiens Priesthood of the Virgin: Marian Vestments for God and ‘Worthy Garments of the Heart.’” International Medieval Conference, University of Leeds, Leeds, U.K., July, 2013

“‘Hidden Sons of God’: Baptism and Transfiguration in Rogier van der Weyden’s St. John Triptych.” Centre for the Arts in Society Conference: “Rethinking the Dialogue between the Visual and the Textual. Methodological Approaches to the Relationships Between Religious Art and Literature (ca. 1400–1700),” Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, June, 2013

“Rogier van der Weyden and Jan van Ruusbroec: Reading, Rending, and Re-Fashioning the ‘Twice-Dyed’ Veil of Blood in the Escorial Crucifixion.” Fourth Triennial Lovis Corinth Colloquium: “Ab historia proprie figurativa: Visual Images as Exegetical Instruments, 1400- 1700,” Emory University, Atlanta, February, 2012

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“Rogier van der Weyden and Jan van Ruusbroec: Revelatory Sight and the ‘Twice-Dyed’ Veil of Blood in the Escorial Crucifixion.” Recruitment Colloquium, Emory University, Atlanta, February, 2012

“Immaculate Transgression: Crossing Gendered Boundaries in Marian Devotion.” Historians of Netherlandish Art Conference, Session: “Bending and Breaching the Boundaries of Gender,” Amsterdam, May, 2010

“Immaculate Transgression: Crossing Gendered Boundaries in Marian Devotion.” Recruitment Colloquium, Emory University, Atlanta, January, 2010

“Sponsae Christi: Poor Clares and Mystical Marriage in Robert Campin’s Betrothal of the Virgin.” National Coalition of Independent Scholars Conference, The Theological Union, Berkeley, October, 2008

“‘An Odor of Sanctity’: The Iconography, Magic and Ritual of Egyptian Incense.” Students of the Ancient Near East Conference, Session: “Temples and Ritual in Antiquity,” Brigham Young University, Provo, October, 2008

“From Marketplace to Mount Carmel: Eastern Pageantry and the Spectacle of Folk Religion on the Bay of Naples.” Museum of Art Conference: “Pageants and Processions: Image and Idiom as Spectacle,” Brigham Young University, Provo, March, 2008

“Bleeding Frescos and Flying Icons: The Cult of Madonna dell’Arco in Southern Italy.” The Kennedy Center International Inquiry Conference, Brigham Young University, Provo, March, 2007

“Face of Resistance: The Black Madonna of Częstochowa in Communist Poland.” Biennial “Art, Belief, and Meaning” Symposium, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, November, 2006

“Hawaiian Supernatural Folklore and the Sovereignty Movement.” Folklore Society of Symposium, , November, 2005

SYMPOSIA, COLLOQUIA, AND CONFERENCE PANELS:

Chair: “Decorative Programs in European Churches,” Sixteenth-Century Society Conference, St. Louis, October, 2019.

Chair: “Artists and Their Products in the Netherlands,” Sixteenth-Century Society Conference, Albuquerque, November, 2018

Co-organizer: “Marian Images in Context: Devotions, Doctrines, and Cults” Sixteenth-Century Society Conference, Milwaukee, October, 2017

INVITED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS:

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“Landscape and The Hour of Land,” Literary League Book Club, Provo, October 2019.

“The Virgin Mary as Archetype of the Christian Artist,” “Maria Mediatrix: Model of Affective Piety,” and “Sacrifice, Priesthood, and the Mother of God.” Guest lecture series for Early Modern European Women Writers (WS 351), Brigham Young University, Provo, September 2019.

“‘But Mary Kept All These Things, and Pondered Them in Her Heart’: Artistic Witnesses of Christ Through the Eyes of His Mother.” Local study group lecture, Provo, May 2019.

“‘To Do Justly, and to Love Mercy’: Arbitrating Divine Law in Early Modern Art.” Guest lecture for Law and Literature (LAW 796R), J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, Provo, March 2017, March 2018, March 2019.

“Amber, Blood, and the Holy Face of Jesus: The Materiality of Devotion in Late Medieval Bruges.” Humanities Center colloquium, Brigham Young University, Provo, December 2018.

“Western European Art: Principles for Study and Research.” Guest lecture for Introduction to European Studies (EUROP 200), Brigham Young University, Provo, November 2018.

“‘Greater Love Hath No Man Than This’: Depicting Compassion and Redemption in Renaissance Art.” Local study group presentation, Provo, September 2018.

“‘But Mary Kept All These Things, and Pondered Them in Her Heart’: Artistic Witnesses of Christ Through the Eyes of His Mother.” Education Week lecture, Brigham Young University, Provo, August 2018.

“Our Lady of Grace at Cambrai: A Holy War for Devotional Hegemony.” Medieval and Renaissance Society (MARS) faculty talk, Brigham Young University, Provo, March 2018.

“Books of Hours.” Study Day presentation for Medieval Latin (LATIN 441), L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, February 2018.

“‘Greater Love Hath No Man Than This’: Depicting Compassion and Redemption in Renaissance Art.” Education Week lecture, Brigham Young University, Provo, August 2017.

Interviewee for Museum of Art exhibition, To Magnify the Lord: Six Centuries of Art and Devotion. Brigham Young University, Provo, October 2016

“All Souls Day” interviewee, BYU Radio Top of Mind with Julie Rose (http://www.byuradio.org/episode/440c1b22-bd67-4333-b96a-8d76d7cf1620/top-of-mind-with- julie-rose-counterterrorism-all-souls-day-sequoias-careers-for-millennials), November 2, 2015

“Devotional Art.” Living Room Lecture Series of the Manhattan, New York Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, New York City, August 2014

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“Renoir and Impressionism.” The Harwood Condominium Book Club, Atlanta, August 2010

Graduation Speaker, Department of Visual Arts Commencement, Brigham Young University, Provo, August 2007

“The Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris.” Literary League Book Club, Provo, February 2007

PANEL DISCUSSIONS:

“Do Angels Have Wings?” Art and Belief Panel for the 31st Annual Spiritual and Religious Art of Utah Exhibition: Forgotten Angels and Other Heavenly Beings, Springville Museum of Art, Springville, November 2016

“Art and Religion Panel.” BYU Radio Top of Mind with Julie Rose (http://www.byuradio.org/episode/0ab95189-6a60-4086-92f8-ff3929a8fd98/top-of-mind-with- julie-rose-art-and-religion-panel-greatest-snow-on-earth), December 18, 2015

TEACHING:

Courses: ARTHC 202 World Civilization Since 1500

ARTHC 316 Art of the Medieval West

ARTHC 320 Italian Renaissance

ARTHC 325 Northern Renaissance Art

ARTHC 490R Special Topics in Art History: Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Netherlandish Prints, Directed Readings

ARTHC 496R Academic Internship / Off-Campus Internship

ARTHC 498 Senior Thesis / Capstone Experience

ARTHC 530R Studies in Medieval Art

ARTHC 540R Studies in Renaissance Art

ARTHC 599R Graduate Academic Internship

CMPST 650R Interrelations of the Arts Graduate Seminar: Devotional Art

MASTERS THESES

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Chair: Josie Ableman, “Man of Sorrows,” 2019–2021.

Kris Kryscynski, “Religiosity and Self Determination in Art and Literature by Early Modern European Women,” 2018-2020.

Reader: Melanie Allred, “The Light of Descartes in Rembrandt’s Mature Self-Portraits,” 2018-2019 (Martha Peacock, chair).

Heather White, “Sirani, Iole, and Omphale,” 2016-2019 (Martha Peacock, chair).

Tiffany Wixom, “Combating Voyeurism: Domenichino and the Protofeminist Artistic Tradition of Bologna, Italy,” 2016-2018 (Martha Peacock, chair).

HONORS THESES

Chair: Claralyn Burt, “Willing Submission: The Birdcage as Semiological Signifier in Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Allegory of Good Government,” 2017-2018.

Mary-Margaret McLeod, “The Significance of Cloth in the Narrative of the Life of Christ, as Represented in Dieric Bouts’s Life of Christ Altarpiece,” 2017-2018.

Heidi Shelley Pyper, “Michelangelo’s Rondanini Pietà: Themes of Creation from a Dual Gender Perspective,” 2016-2017.

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH GRANTS

Mentor: Raechel Vanderholm, “Cupid as Christ in Botticelli’s Primavera,” HUM grant, Brigham Young University, 2019.

Miranda Underwood, “Christ as Ultimate Healer: A Research Project Examining the Spiritual Healing Power of Art,” HUM grant, Brigham Young University, 2019.

Anika VanDenBerghe, “Lucas van Leyden’s Adoration of the Golden Calf,” HUM grant, Brigham Young University, 2019.

Rebekkah Hart, “Forgotten Alabasters: An Investigation of Piety and Material Devotion in Medieval England,” HUM grant, Brigham Young University, 2018-2019.

Hannah Moffat, “Shedding Light on Melancholia I,” HUM grant, Brigham Young University, 2018-2019.

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Claralyn Burt, “Willing Submission: The Birdcage as Semiological Signifier in Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Allegory of Good Government,” ORCA grant, Brigham Young University, 2017-2018.

Samantha Burton, “Understanding the Jewish Response to Anti-Semitism Through the Darmstadt Haggadah,” ORCA grant, Brigham Young University, 2017-2018.

Heidi Shelley Pyper, “Michelangelo’s Rondanini Pietà: Themes of Creation from a Dual Gender Perspective,” ORCA grant, Brigham young University, 2016-2017.

Caroline Hatch Ferrell, “The Black Hours and Finding Deeper Significance,” ORCA grant, Brigham Young University, 2016-2017.

UNIVERSITY SERVICE:

Brigham Young University: Fellow of the Council for Religious Outreach: 2019–present

College reviewer for Hum grant proposals for mentored undergraduate research: 2019–present

Global Women’s Studies faculty affiliate: 2019-present

European Studies faculty affiliate: 2018-present

Professional Development committee member, Department of Comparative Arts and Letters: 2018-present

Internship Coordinator for Art History Area: 2017-present

Advisor for the Student Art History Association: 2015–present

Interviewee for “Jorge Cocco Santángelo’s Forty Days and Forty Nights.” Humanities (Spring 2019): 4-5.

Respondent for two sessions of “Material Culture and Women’s Religious Experience in Antiquity,” Neal A. Maxwell Institute, Brigham Young University, Provo, March, 2019

Ad hoc reviewer for Theatan journal of undergraduate research: 2019

Session moderator for Humanities Conference of undergraduate research, Department of Comparative Arts & Letters, Brigham Young University, Provo, 2007, 2008

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

Co-author for Oxford Bibliographies in Renaissance and Reformation (www.oxfordbibliographies.com)

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Ad hoc reviewer for Brill book manuscript, 2018

MEMBERSHIPS:

Historians of Netherlandish Art (international)

Renaissance Society of America (international)

Sixteenth-Century Society (international)

International Council of Museums—US (international)

Medieval and Renaissance Society (university)

ADDITIONAL TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE:

Co-curator for To Meditate on the Lord, an exhibition of selected engravings from Jerome Nadal’s Adnotationes et meditationes in Evangelia (1595), Museum of Art, Brigham Young University, Provo, August-December 2018

Juror for the 94th annual Spring Salon of Utah artists, Springville Museum of Art, Springville, May, 2018

Planning Assistant for an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar on Visual Exegesis (2013-2014), Emory University, Atlanta, 2012-2013

Editorial and Planning Assistant for the Fourth Triennial Lovis Corinth Colloquium conference and publication, Emory University, Atlanta, 2011-2013

Exchange student at Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2011

Participant in Brigham Young University Apolline Excavation Project in conjunction with Suor Orsola Benincasa University, Bay of Naples, Italy, 2006 and 2007

Curatorial Intern, Museum of Art, Brigham Young University, Provo, 2006

Volunteer Docent, Beholding Salvation, Museum of Art, Brigham Young University, Provo, 2006-2007

Law Office Assistant for Joseph L. Henriod, P.C., Salt Lake City, 2002 and 2005

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