FACULTY
Anne D. Hedeman
Professor
Art History: Medieval and Northern Renaissance Art
Degrees:
A.B., Princeton University; M.A. and Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University
Anne D. Hedeman is Professor of Art History and Medieval Studies and University Scholar at the University of Illinois. A specialist in late Medieval and Northern Renaissance Art and the history of the book, she has written three books and published articles in Art Bulletin, Gesta, and numerous anthologies. Currently she is writing the catalogue for and co-curating Imagining the Past in France, 1250-1500, an international loan exhibition scheduled for November 16, 2010-February 5, 2011 at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles; editing a special issue of Gesta exploring the arts of memory; co-editing a volume, Collections in Context: The Organization of Knowledge and Community in Europe (14th-17th centuries); and collaborating with colleagues in medieval studies and at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) to develop cyber tools to enhance analysis of eight fully digitalized fifteenth-century manuscripts of Jean Froissart's chronicles in order to understand aspects of the production and consumption of these books and their place in late medieval culture. Her research has been supported by the J. Paul Getty Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Centre nationale de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), the American Philosophical Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), and the National Science Foundation.
Selected Work
Her books include:
The Royal Image: The Illustrations of the "Grandes Chroniques de France," 1274-1422 (University of California Press)
Of Counselors and Kings: The Three Versions of Pierre Salmon's "Dialogues" (University of Illinois Press)
Translating the Past: Laurent de Premierfait and Boccaccio's "De casibus" (Getty Publications)
