Susan E. Wegner

Associate Professor of Art History

Spring 2012

  • Introduction to the Arts of Ancient Mexico and Peru (ARTH 130)
  • The Art of Renaissance Italy (ARTH 222)
Phone 725-3692
Title Associate Professor
Department Art
Work Location 210 Visual Arts Center
E-Mail swegner@bowdoin.edu
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Education:

Bryn Mawr, Ph.D., 1980
University of Wisconsin-Madison, B.A., 1974

Teaching appointments:

Bowdoin College, 1980-present
Visiting Assistant Professor in Department of History of Art, University of Michigan-University of Wisconsin Program in Florence, Winter-Spring 1985

Other Appointments:

Director, Women's Studies Program, Bowdoin College, 1998-2000

Research Interests:

Italian Renaissance Domestic and Political Imagery
Images of Saints (St. Catherine of Siena and St. Bridget of Sweden)
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Italian Drawings
Art in Peru


Peruvian, Early Nazca (Nazca Z) ca. 100-300 AD
Bridge-spout Vessel   buff clay with polychrome slip
 8 x 7 inches Museum Purchase, Florence C. Quinby Fund,
 in memory of Henry Cole Quinby, Honorary Degree, 1916
 Bowdoin College Museum of Art 1969.86
peruivian pot front
 
peruivian pot back

Recent Publications:

"Unpacking the Renaissance Marriage Chest," in Beauty and Duty: The Art and Business of Renaissance Marriage (Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, 2008).

Accepted for Publication:

"Ethical and Practical Considerations in Reconstructing a Renaissance Domestic Interior from Disparate Fragments" (revised title) to appear in New Perspectives on Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior, ed. Stephanie Miller, et. al. for Ashgate Press. To be issued as part of the Visual Culture series. Full edited collection of essays to be back in the hands of Ashgate editors, projected date 2011

Invited Contributor:

Entries on Francesco Vanni drawings for scholarly catalogue accompanying exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago: Capturing the Sublime: Five Centuries of Old Master Drawings from a Private Chicago Collection. 2012

Recent Exhibitions Curated at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art:

susan wegner "Beauty and Duty: The Art and Business of Renaissance Marriage," exhibition of Italian Renaissance painting, furniture, medals, prints and books. March 27 - July 27, 2008

Co-curator for "Visual Conversations," study multi-media and trans-national exhibition in conjunction with Art 100: Introduction of Art History, Fall 2009

"For All Saints, " including selected object labels written by students in Art History 222: Art of Renaissance Italy, November 2009 - January 2010

"The Bible and its Interpreters," November - December 2004

"From Marriage to Childbirth and Child Rearing: Durer's "Life of the Virgin" as Social Document," November - December 2003

"Figures from the Earth: Ceramic Sculpture from Ancient Mexico," Spring 2002

Recent Scholarly Presentations:

"Darkness at Dawn: Artemisia Gentileschi's Aurora" at the College Art Association (hereafter CAA) meetings in Chicago, February 13, 2010

"Ethical and Practical Considerations in Uniting Fragments from Disparate Italian Renaissance Domestic Interiors: Case Study at Bowdoin College Museum of Art," CAA, February 2007

"Graphic Truth and Beauty: Imagined Females in Late Sixteenth-Century Italy" Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Pittsburgh, October 2003