Professor Dr Barbara Baert

The academic activity of Barbara Baert (1967), special guest lecturer (Fund for Scientific Research in Flanders (Belgium)), is concentrated in the border of art history, theology and cultural anthropology. Her research projects are concerned with the relationship between the visual medium in the Middle Ages and sacred topography. In this connection her publications include Aan de vruchten kent men de boom. De boom in de kunst en literatuur van de middeleeuwse Nederlanden (with Veerle Fraeters; Leuven, University Press, 2001) and her recent A Heritage of Holy Wood. The Legend of the True Cross in Text and Image (Cultures, Beliefs and Traditions. Medieval and Early Modern Peoples, 22), Leiden, Brill, 2004. She is co-supervisor of the Fund for Scientific Research in Flanders research project Maria Magdalena en het aanraken. Een intra- en interdisciplinair onderzoek and interested in the comparative theories about the status of the image in the Middle Ages. In this context she has published on the vera icon and is associated with a number of research projects, such as Fluid Flesh. On the Image as Incarnation (jointly with Das Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz) and Vlees/huid/kleur. Omtrent de blos (Hogeschool voor Wetenschap en Kunst Sint-Lucas, Ghent).

Barbara Baert lectures on Image Analysis and Medieval Iconology, and in the theology faculty on the History of Christian Art.

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