Susan E. Wegner

Associate Professor of Art History

Spring 2009

  • Introduction to the Arts of Ancient Mexico and Peru (ARTH 130)
  • Studies in Seventeenth-Century Art: Caravaggio and Artemesia Gentileschi (ARTH 333)
Phone (207) 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:

Images of Saints (St. Catherine of Siena and St. Bridget of Sweden)
Italian Drawings
Nineteenth-Century Sacred Art in America
Art in Peru

Recent Publications:

"Three Peruvian Pots." Pointed Pairings: The Valuing of Art,
(Brunswick: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 2002).

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

"The Rise of St. Catherine of Siena as Intercessor for the Sienese" to be published in a volume of essays on Renaissance Siena: Art in Context, ed. A Jenkens (Sixteenth Century Studies, 2005)

Recent Paper Presentations:

Unknown Artist Spanish (?), 18th-19th Century
Susanna and the Elders
oil on canvas
Bequest of Charles Potter Kling 1935.925
© Bowdoin College Museum of Art
susanna and the elders

"Christ's Glorious Countenance: Envisioning Mystic Marriage"
Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Toronto, October 2004

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

"Women's Spiritual Practice and Counter-Reformation Images in Italy."
Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Denver, October 2001.

Recent Exhibitions Curated at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art:

The Bible and its Interpreters," November - December 2004
"From Marriage to Childbirth and Child Rearing:
Dürer's "Life of the Virgin" as Social Document," November - December, 2003
"Figures from the Earth: Ceramic Sculpture from Ancient Mexico," Spring, 2002
"Ceramics and Textiles from Ancient Peru," Spring 1999

The Supper at Emmaus
Adam Elsheimer, follower of
pen and brown ink, brown wash
Bequest of James Bowdoin III 1811.75
© Bowdoin College Museum of Art
supper at emmaus