Art, Art History, and Film Faculty
Nancy Netzer
Professor, Art History
Inaugural Robert L. and Judith T. Winston Director, McMullen Museum of Art
Nancy Netzer
Ph.D.
Contact
McMullen 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. Ā Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections, Chestnut Hill, MA, 2016.
·”»å¾±³Ł“Ē°ł,ĢżSecular/Sacred, Chestnut Hill, 2006
Editor with Virginia Reinburg.Ā Fragmented Devotion: Medieval Objects from the Schnutgen Museum in Cologne, Chestnut Hill, 2000.
Editor with Virginia Reinburg.Ā 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,Ā 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,Ā : New Research on Manuscripts in Boston Collections,Ā PIMS,Ā University of Toronto Press, 2021.
Articles and Book Chapters
āThe Book of Durrow and the Lindisfarne Gospelsā 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.
āThe Design and Decoration of Insular Gospel-Books and other Liturgical Manuscriptsā 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.
āNew Finds Versus the Beginning of the Narrative on Insular Gospel Booksā, 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.
āThe āCelticā Bronzes from Dura Europos: Connections to Britain,ā in Dura Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity, Lisa Brody and Gail Hoffman, eds., Chestnut Hill, MA, 2011, pp. 283-294.
āFraming the Book of Durrow inside/outside the Anglo-Saxon Worldā, 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.
āThe Rise of the Study of the History of Christian Artā in M Brown, The Lion Companion to Christian Art, Oxford, 2007, pp. 297-299.
āInsular and Islamic Cosmophilic Responses to the Classical Pastā in S. Blair and J. Bloom, Cosmophilia: Islamic Art from the David Collection, Copenhagen, Chestnut Hill, MA, 2006, pp. 39-44.
āSecularā and āSacredā Objects from the Middle Ages: Illuminating the History of Classificationā in Secular/Sacred: 11th ā 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 SchnĆ¼tgen 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.