Elizabeth Sears

• Medieval period

Elizabeth Sears
Born	1952 (age 72–73)
Academic background
Alma mater	Duke University and Yale University
Institutions	University of Michigan

Elizabeth Langsford Sears (born 1952) ^[1] is Professor Emerita, George H. Forsyth Jr. Collegiate History of Art at the University of Michigan. She is known for the study of European medieval art and the historiography of art. ^[2]

Education

Sears attended Duke University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1974. She earned her master's degree and Ph.D. from Yale University in 1982, ^[3] writing on "the ages of man" under professor Walter Cahn. ^[4]

Career

Sears is the Professor Emerita, George H. Forsyth Jr. Collegiate History of Art at University of Michigan. ^{[5] [6]} She also taught at the Universität Hamburg and Princeton University. ^[3]

Selected books

• Verzetteln als Methode: Der humanistische Ikonologe William S. Heckscher (2008), co-authored with Charlotte Schoell-Glass, Hamburger Forschungen zur Kunstgeschichte, Akademie Verlag. ^[7]
• With Edgar Wind, The Religious Symbolism of Michelangelo: The Sistine Ceiling (2000), editor, Oxford University Press. ^[8]
• The Ages of Man: Medieval Interpretations of the Life Cycle (1986), Princeton University Press. ^[9] (winner of the John Nicholas Brown Prize of the Medieval Academy of America in 1990) ^[10]

Awards and honors

Sears is the recipient of numerous awards including a Paul Mellon Centre Fellowship at the British School at Rome in 2004, ^[11] a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library, 2019-2020. ^{[5] [3]} Also in 2010 Sears was the Paul Mellon Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. ^[12]

References

1. "Elizabeth Sears". Prosto do informacji - katalog zbiorów polskich bibliotek naukowych. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
2. "Elizabeth Sears". American Academy. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
3. "Elizabeth Sears". John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
4. Elizabeth Lanford Sears, "The Ages of Man in Medieval Art." 2 volumes. Ph.D. dissertation--Yale University, 1982. ProQuest no. 303261219.
5. "Past Fellows 2019-2020". The New York Public Library. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
6. "Elizabeth Sears". U-M LSA History of Art. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
7. Schoell-Glass, Charlotte; Sears, Elizabeth (12 November 2012). Verzetteln als Methode (in German). Akademie Verlag. doi:10.1524/9783050062167. ISBN   978-3-05-004449-1 . Retrieved 26 August 2021.
8. Wind, Edgar; Sears, Elizabeth (2000). The religious symbolism of Michelangelo: the Sistine ceiling. Oxford University Press. OCLC   45580969.
9. Sears, Elizabeth (19 February 2019). "The Ages of Man". Princeton University Press. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
10. "Recent Recipients of the John Nicholas Brown Prize". The Medieval Academy of America. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
11. "Award-holders before 2005". The British School at Rome. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
12. "Center 31" (PDF). Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. National Gallery of Art. Retrieved 26 August 2021.