Valerie Hedquist, Associate Professor

Statement

I teach the introductory courses in Art History and Art Criticism, with a special emphasis on the art of the Renaissance and Baroque periods. I have traveled with students to Rome, Italy in January 2004 and to New York City to see the Christo/Jeanne-Claude Gates project in Central Park this February 2005. Next fall, I will teach a course on Dutch 17th-century painting that will culminate in a trip to the Netherlands during Winter Session 2006. I enjoy teaching and advising students, collaborating with colleagues, and writing about the art of Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Gabriel Metsu.

Selected Curriculum Vitae

Publications

"Religion in the Art and Life of Vermeer," Chapter 7 in The Cambridge Companion to Vermeer, pp.111-30, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2001.

"The Real Presence of Christ and the Penitent Mary Magdalen in the Allegory of Faith by Jan Vermeer." Art History, 23, 200, 333-64

Encyclopedia entries on 17th-century Dutch history painting, religious art and patrons, churches as patrons of art, Pre-Rembrandtists, and Gabriel Metsu in Dutch Art: An Encyclopedia, ed. Sheila Muller, Garland Publishing, New York, NY 1997

"Rembrandt and the Franciscans of Amsterdam" Dutch Crossing, A Journal of Low Country Studies, Summer 1994, 20-49

"A Testament of Seventeenth-century Netherlandish Catholicism in the Elvehjem Museum of Art," Elvehjem Museum of Art Bulletin, April 1992, 13-22

Work in Progress

"Gabriel Metsu's The Sick Child: Genre Painting as Catholic Imagery."

Courses Taught

Introduction to the Visual Arts
History of Art: Ancient through Medieval
History of Art: Renaissance through Modern
History of Ancient Art and Architecture
History of Medieval Art and Architecture
History of North Renaissance Art
History of Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture
History of Baroque Art and Architecture
History of Modern Art
History of Photography
Dutch 17th-century Painting
Art Theory and Criticism
Contemporary Art and Art Criticism

Professional Organization Memberships

American Association of Netherlandic Studies
College Art Association
Historians of Netherlandish Art
Midwest Art History Society

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