The Ohio State University The Department of History of Art The College of the Arts

Barbara Haeger—Associate Professor

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Barbara Haeger

A specialist in Dutch and Flemish art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Barbara Haeger is particularly interested in the role of art as an instrument of power and persuasion and as a vehicle for fostering religious beliefs, identities, and devotions. Her recent seminars have reflected this interest and have explored the changing conception of the image during this period. She is currently engaged in a number of research projects focusing on art, architecture, and ritual use of urban space in Counter-Reformation Antwerp.


Education

  • Ph. D. in the History of Art, The University of Michigan, 1983
  • M. A. in the History of Art, The University of Michigan, 1975
  • B. A. magna cum laude in Fine Arts and History, Tufts University, 1973

Publications

    Articles & Essays

  • "The Façade of the Jesuit Church in Antwerp: Representing the Church Militant and Triumphant," in Piet Lombaerde (ed.) Innovation and Experience in Early Baroque in the Southern Netherlands. The Case of the Jesuit Church in Antwerp in Architectura Moderna 6 (2008), pp. 97–124.
  • "The Choir Screen at St. Michael's Abbey in Antwerp: Gateway to the Heavenly Jerusalem," Bevlogen Vlieghe. Contributions on Seventeenth-Century Flemish Painting in honour of Hans Vlieghe, Turnhout, 2006)
  • "Abbot Van der Sterre and St. Michael's Abbey: the restoration of its church, its image, and its place in Antwerp," in Sponsors of the Past: Flemish Art and Patronage in Flanders (Turnhout, 2005), 157–180
  • "Rubens's Adoration of the Magi and the Program of the High Altar of St. Michael's Abbey in Antwerp," Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art 25 (1997): 45–71
  • "Philips Galle's Engravings after Maarten van Heemskerck's Parable of the Prodigal Son," Oud Holland 102 (1988): 127–140
  • "Frans Hals so-called Jonker Ramp and his Sweetheart Reconsidered," Konsthistorisk Tidskrift 55 (1987): 141–48
  • "Barent Fabritius' Three Paintings of Parables for the Lutheran Church in Leiden," Oud Holland 101 (1987): 95–114
  • "Cornelis Anthonisz's Representation of the Parable of the Prodigal Son: A Unique Expression of the Protestant Interpretation of the Biblical Text," Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 37 (1986): 133–50
  • "The Prodigal Son in 16th and 17th Century Netherlandish Art: Depictions of the Parable and the Evolution of a Catholic Image," Simiolus Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art 16 (1986): 128–38

    • Other

  • "Emblem and emblems books." In Dutch Art: An Encyclopedia. pp. 124–127. Edited by Sheila Muller. Hamden, Connecticut: Garland Publishing, 1997
  • "Genre painting, seventeenth century." In Dutch Art: An Encyclopedia pp. 152–55. Edited by Sheila Muller. Hamden, Connecticut: Garland Publishing, 1997
  • Forward to In Search of the Netherlandish Tradition 1400–1700: Patterns of Continutiy and Exchange ( Simiolus 20 (1990/1991): 123.

    • Reviews

  • "Reflections on the History of Art: Views and Reviews by Ernst H. Gombrich," The Arts Education Review of Books 5 (1990): 33–34

Seminars, Lectures & Presentations

    Invited Lectures

  • "Images, Meditational Prayer, and the Experience of Divine Presence," Faith and Fantasy in the Early Modern World, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto, October 2007.
  • "Rubens's Epitaphs: Reveling Divinity and Defending the Veneration of Images," University of Texas-Austin (October, 2004)
  • "Viewer Involvement and the Dangers of Sensual Pleasures in some 17th Century Dutch Genre Paintings," Temple University, Philadelphia, 1993
  • "Continuity and Change in 17th Century Dutch and Flemish Painting," College of Charleston and the Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, S. C., 1991
  • "Rubens's Representations of the Adoration of the Magi: A Preliminary Investigation," University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 1990
  • "Rembrandt's Etchings of Biblical Subjects: From Dramatic Narrative to Contemplative Image," University of Michigan-Dearborn, 1989
  • "Art, Religion and Politics in the Age of Rembrandt," Memphis State University, 1988

Professional Activities

    General

  • 2000 National screening committee to select applications for Fulbrights to Belgium and the Netherlands
  • 1989–93 Board of Directors, Historians of Netherlandish Art
  • 1989–91 President of the Historians of Netherlandish Art
  • 1987–89 Vice President of the Historians of Netherlandish Art
  • 1987–89 Project Director (conceived of theme for conference, coordinated the program planning, co-authored the grant proposals and administered the NEH Conference Grant) for 1989 international conference "In Search of the Netherlandish Tradition: Patterns of Continuity and Exchange"
  • 1983 Art historical consultant for NEH Young Scholar's Project

    • Memberships

  • Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars
  • Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society

    • Papers Delivered at Professional Meetings

  • "The Facade of the St. Carolus Borromeus Church: Marking the Threshold of the Sacred," International Symposium: Innovation and Experience in the Early Baroque in the Southern Netherlands: The Case of the St. Carolus Borromeus Church in Antwerp, Higher Institute of Architectural Sciences, Antwerp, December 2005
  • "The Façade of the Jesuit Church in Antwerp: Mediating between the Secular and the Sacred," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Atlanta, October 2005
  • "Rubens's Christ Triumphant over Sin and Death: Resurrection and the Revelation of Divinity," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Pittsburgh, October 2003
  • "The Rood Screen at St. Michael's Abbey in Antwerp: Visualizing the Threshold," Defining the Holy: Sacred Space in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, University of Exeter, April 2003
  • "Two Series of Paintings for the Lutheran Church in Leiden (1640 and 1661)," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, San Antonio, October 2002
  • "The Choir Screen at St. Michael's Abbey in Antwerp: A Counter-Reformation Monument," Post-Tridentine Art and Religion: Propagation, Participation, Meditation, College Art Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, February 2002
  • "Promoting the Premonstratensian Order and the Role of the Church in Antwerp: Abbot van der Sterre's Program for the Restoration of St. Michael's," Commissioned Art. Flemish Art and Patronage 1550–1700 Symposium, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, December 2001
  • "Catholic and/or Protestant: Re-evaluating our Criteria for Sectarian Imagery," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Denver, October 2001
  • "The Issue of Sectarian Interpretation in the Seventeenth Century in the Netherlands: Context and Reception," Artistic Devotion: Private Practice and Public Images, College Art Association Meeting, New York, February 2000
  • "The Choir in St. Michael's Abbey in Antwerp: A Stage for the Triumph of Christ, the Eucharist, and the True Faith," Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, October, 1999
  • "St. Norbert: A Hero for the Counter-Reformation Church, the Norbertines, and the People of Antwerp," Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, Toronto, October, 1998
  • "Invoking the Past in St. Michael's Abbey in Antwerp: 1614–1652," Interdisciplinary Conference on Netherlandic Studies: History and Dutch Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, May, 1997
  • "Invoking the Past in St. Michael's Abbey in Antwerp: 1614–1652," Interdisciplinary Conference on Netherlandic Studies: History and Dutch Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, May, 1997
  • "Rubens's Antwerp Adoration of the Magi: A Netherlandic Response to the Demands of the Counter-Reformation Church," 8th Biennial Interdisciplinary Conference on Netherlandic Studies, New York, Columbia University and the Institute of Fine Arts, June, 1996
  • "Rubens's Antwerp Adoration of the Magi: A Netherlandic Response to the Demands of the Counter-Reformation Church," 8th Biennial Interdisciplinary Conference on Netherlandic Studies, New York, Columbia University and the Institute of Fine Arts, June, 1996
  • "The Visual Structure of the Hermitage Return of the Prodigal Son and the Involvement of the Viewer," Beyond Attribution: Re-reading Rembrandt in the 1990s, Columbia University, 1992
  • "The Visual Structure of the Hermitage Return of the Prodigal Son and the Involvement of the Viewer," Beyond Attribution: Re-reading Rembrandt in the 1990s, Columbia University, 1992
  • "Dual Meanings in 17th Century Dutch Genre Painting: Jan Miense Molenaer's Allegory of Marital Fidelity—A case in Point," American Association of Netherlandic Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 1990 and 17th Century Dutch Art and Life: An Interdisciplinary Symposium, Hofstra University, 1991
  • "Dual Meanings in 17th Century Dutch Genre Painting: Jan Miense Molenaer's Allegory of Marital Fidelity—A case in Point," American Association of Netherlandic Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 1990 and 17th Century Dutch Art and Life: An Interdisciplinary Symposium, Hofstra University, 1991
  • "Barent Fabritius' Three Paintings of Parables for the Lutheran Church in Leiden," American Association of Netherlandic Studies Biennial Interdisciplinary Conference, The University of Michigan, 1986
  • "Phillip Galle's Engravings of Maarten van Heemskerck's Parable of the Prodigal Son," Art before the Iconoclasm Colloquium, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, 1986
  • "Phillip Galle's Engravings of Maarten van Heemskerck's Parable of the Prodigal Son," Art before the Iconoclasm Colloquium, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, 1986
  • "Cornelis Anthonisz's Representation of the Parable of the Prodigal Son: A Unique Presentation of the Protestant Interpretation of the Biblical Text," Midwest Art History Society Conference, Indiana University, 1985
  • "The Prodigal Son in 16th and 17th Century Netherlandish Art; Depictions of the Parable and the Evolution of a Catholic Image," International Research Conference: Tradition and Innovation in the Study of Northern European Art, University of Pittsburgh, 1985
  • Commentator, Bruegel's Fall of Icarus: Two Contextual Readings, Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, The Ohio State University, 1985
  • "The Religious Significance of Rembrandt's Return of the Prodigal Son: A New Interpretation," Baroque Connections: An International Academic Conference, Calvin College, 1983
  • "Rembrandt's Return of the Prodigal Son: Its Sources and Significance," 600 Years of Netherlandish Art Symposium, Memphis State University, 1982

    • Sessions Chaired at Professional Meetings

  • "Mediating and Activating Sacred Space" (organized session), Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Atlanta, October 2005
  • Panel Discussion: Hendrik Goltzius Reconsidered (organized and chaired), Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Pittsburgh, October 2003
  • Constructing Political Ideologies and National Identities in Netherlandish Art (workshop co-chair and commentator), Historians of Netherlandish Art Conference, Antwerp, March 2002
  • Meditation Practices: Texts, Images, Rituals (chair and comment), Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Cleveland, 2000
  • Art History II, American Association of Netherlandic Studies Biennial Interdisciplinary Conference, Indiana University, 1994
  • Baroque Art, Midwest Art History Society Annual Conference, University of Cincinnati, 1990

Fellowships, Grants & Awards

  • Arts and Sciences Honors Faculty Service Award, 2006
  • Who's Who Among America's Teachers 2000
  • Finalist, Arts and Sciences Student Council Outstanding Teaching Award, 1991 and 1997