Academics
Ann M. Roberts
Professor
Art
Phone 847-735-5188
E-mail roberts@lakeforest.edu
Specialization
Renaissance Art
Northern Europe and Italy
Women in Art
Interests
Images of Women in European Art
Education
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
M.A. University of Pennsylvania
B.A. The Johns Hopkins University
Courses Taught
Art 110: Introduction to Visual Arts
Art 210: Ancient Art
Art 211: Medieval Art
Art 212: Renaissance Art
Art 215: European Art 1600-1750
Art 223: Northern Renaissance Art
Art 224: History of Prints
Art 226: Colonial Latin American Art
Art 325: Women, Art and Society
Books
Dominican Women and Renaissance Art: the Convent of San Domenico of Pisa. Forthcoming, Ashgate Press, 2008.
Janson’s History of Art, 7th edition. Lead author and responsible editor for Renaissance Chapters. Pearson Education, 2006.
Articles
“The Posthumous Image of Mary of Burgundy,” in Women and Portraits in Early Modern Art (Forthcoming, 2008)
"The Horse and the Hawk: Representations of Mary of Burgundy as Sovereign," in Excavating the Medieval Image: Manuscripts, Artists, Audiences—Essays in Honor of Sandra Hindman London: Ashgate, 2004, 135-150.
"'Onzer gheducter joncvrouwe': Representations of Mary of Burgundy as Sovereign," in The Medieval Image in History (forthcoming, 2003)
"Plautilla Nelli's Last Supper and the Dominican Refectory Tradition," in Suor Plautilla Nelli (1523-1588). The First Woman Painter of Florence. Florence, Edizioni Cadmo, 2000 (Italian History and Culture. Yearbook of Georgetown University at Villa Le Balze, vol. 6), pp. 39-49.
"The City and the Convent: The Master of the Legend of Saint Lucy's Virgin of the Rose Garden," The Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts (1998, Vol. 72), pp. 56-65.
"The Mocking of Elisha," entry in Drawings in Midwestern Collections. Volume One: Early Works, edited by B. Dunbar and E. Olszewski, University of Missouri Press, 1996, pp. 120-126.
"Chiara Gambacorta as Patroness of the Arts," in Creative Women in Medieval and Early Modern Italy: A Religious and Artistic Renaissance, edited by E.A. Matter and J. Coakley, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994, pp. 120-154.
"The Landscape as Legal Document: Jan de Hervy's View of the Zwin," Burlington Magazine, 133, 1991, pp. 82-86.
"The Chronology and Political Significance of the Tomb of Mary of Burgundy," Art Bulletin, 71, 1989, pp. 376-400.
"Cloistered Nuns as Patrons and Painters: The Convent of San Domenico in Pisa," Italian Renaissance Studies in Arizona (Selected papers from the procedings of the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference), edited J. Brink and P. Baldini, River Forest, IL 1989, pp. 89-111.
"North meets South in the Convent: The Altarpiece of Saint Catherine of Alexandria in Pisa," Zeitschrift fur Kunstgeschichte, 50, 1987, pp. 187-206.
"The Lucy Master and Hugo van der Goes," Jaarboek Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerp, 1987, pp. 1-16.
"Silverpoints by the Master of the Legend of Saint Lucy," Oud Holland, 98, 1984, pp. 237-245.
Exhibitions
“Women and the Word,” exhibition co-curated with introductory essay at DePaul University, January 16 –March 14, 2004.
Invited Talks
“Romantic Heroine and Constitutional Monarch: Mary of Burgundy in the Nineteenth Century,” read at Symposium in honor of Sandra Hindman at the Newberry Library, June 2004.
“Morals and Meanings in Renaissance Prints of Pyramus and Thisbe,” read at Augustana College, February, 2004.
“Religious Women, Reading and Rules,” read at DePaul University, January, 2004.
"The Posthumous Image of Mary of Burgundy," read at annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, March 2001.
Plautilla Nelli's Last Supper and the Dominican Refectory Tradition," at international conference, Suor Plautilla Nelli (1523-1588). The First Woman Painter of Florence. Florence, 1998.
"Women Artists and Women Patrons in the Convent," read at the conference, "Women and Patronage in the Arts of the Renaissance," Ohio State University, February 1993.
"'La boccha chiusa': Visual and Verbal Exhortations to Silence in the Convent," read at the 25th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 1990.
Other Talks
"Tradition and Translation in Jan Provoost's Genoa Annunciation," read at the 25th annual meeting of the Midwest Art History Society, Chicago, April 1998.
"The Refectory Frescoes of San Domenico of Pisa and Women's Role in the Dominican Observance,' read at the College Art Association annual meeting, Boston, February 1996.
"An Illustrated Incunable of the 'Rule of Saint Jerome' and late Medieval Representations of Nuns," read at the Renaissance Society of America annual meeting, April 1995.
Awards and Honors
FaCE Grant, Associated Colleges of the Midwest, Spring 2007.
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Fall 2001
Fulbright Scholar, Western European Regional Research, 1986.