Career
Barbara Baert teaches in the fields of iconology, art theory and analysis, and medieval art. She is the founder of the Iconology Research Group, an international and interdisciplinary platform for the study of the interpretation of images. Baert is a fellow at Illuminare – Centre for the Study of Medieval Art (KU Leuven). In 1997, Baert obtained a doctoral degree with her research on the True Cross, later published in English under the title ''A Heritage of Holy Wood: The Legend of the True Cross in Text and Image.'' She directed several international research programmes, such as ''Mary Magdalene and the Touching of Jesus, an intra- and interdisciplinary investigation of the interpretation of John 20:17'' sponsored by the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders (2004-2008) and ''The Woman with the Hemorrhage (Matthew 9:20-22; Mark 5:24-34; Luke 8:42b-48), an iconological study of the interpretation of the Haemorrhoissa in medieval art (4th-15th century)'' funded by the KU Leuven (2008-2012). Currently, Baert is supervising several interdisciplinary and international projects, including ''Ornamenta sacra. Iconology of liturgical objects'' (2017-2021) (Belspo-Brain-be, UC Louvain and KIK/IRPA) and ''Kairós, or the Right Moment. Nachleben and iconology'' (2017-2022) (Prizes and awards
Baert was honoured twice by the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts: in 1993 for her outstanding thesis in art history entitled ''Het Boec van den Houte'' and in 2006 for her outstanding scientific career before the age of forty. In 2016, she was honoured the Pioneer's Award of the KU Leuven and the Francqui Prize for her pioneering work in iconology and medieval visual culture. In 2017 she received the honour of Commander of the Order of Léopold. In 2019 Baert became a member in residence of thePublications
* B. Baert, ''A Heritage of Holy Wood: The Legend of the True Cross in Text and Image,'' Leiden: Brill, 2004. * B. Baert, "The Gaze in the Garden. Noli me tangere and embodiment in the 15th century Netherlands and Rhineland", in ''Body and Embodiment. Nederlands kunsthistorisch Jaarboek'', 2007, pp. 37–61. * B. Baert, "Touching the Hem. The Thread between Garment and Blood in the Story of the Woman with the Hemorrhage (Mark 5:24b-34parr)", in ''Das Kleid der Bilder'', eds. Marius Rimmele & David Ganz (Textile Studies, 4), Konstanz-Zürich, 2012, pp. 159–182. * B. Baert, ''Interspaces between Word, Gaze and Touch. The Bible and the Visual Medium in the Middle Ages. Collected essays on Noli me tangere, the Woman with the Haemorrhage, the Head of John the Baptist'' (Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia, LXII), Leuven: Peeters, 2011. () * B. Baert, ''Caput Joannis in Disco. Essay on a Man’s Head'' (Visualising the Middle Ages VMA 8), Leiden: Brill, 2012. () * B. Baert, L. Kusters and E. Sidgwick, "An issue of blood. The healing of the woman with the Haemorrhage (Mark 5.24B-34, Luke 8.42B-48, Matthew 9.19-22) in early medieval visual culture", in ''Blood, Sweat and Tears - The Changing Concepts of Physiology from Antiquity into Early Modern Europe'', ed. M. Horstmanshoff (Intersections. Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture, 25), Leiden: Brill, 2012, pp. 307–338. * B. Baert, "Adam, Seth and Jerusalem. The Legend of the Wood of the Cross in Medieval Literature and Iconography", in ''Adam, le premier home'' (Micrologus’ Library, 45), Firenze (Sislem), 2012, pp. 69–99. * B. Baert, Ann-Sophie Lehmann & Jenke van der Akkerveken, ''New Perspectives in Iconology: Visual Studies and Anthropology'' (Iconologies) Brussels (AspEditions), 2012. () * B. Baert, "The Johannesschüssel as Andachtsbild. The Gaze, the Medium and the Senses", in ''Disembodied Heads in Medieval and Early Modern Culture'', ed. Catrien Santing, B. Baert & Anita Traninger (Intersections. Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture, 28), Leiden: Brill, 2013, pp. 117–160. () * B. Baert, ''Late Mediaeval Enclosed Gardens of the Low Countries: Contributions to Gender and Artistic Expression'' (Studies in Iconology 2), Leuven: Peeters, 2015. () * B. Baert, ''Pneuma and the Visual arts in the Middle Ages and early Modernity'' (Art&Religion 5), Leuven-Walpole (Peeters), 2016. () * B. Baert, "Pentecost and the Senses. A Hermeneutical Contribution to the Visual Medium and the Sensorium in Early Medieval Manuscript Tradition", in ''Preaching after Easter'', eds. Johan Leemans & Rich Bishop, Leiden: Brill, 2016, pp. 346–370. * B. Baert, ''Kairos or Occasion as Paradigm in the Visual Medium. Nachleben, Iconography, Hermeneutics'' Leuven: Peeters, 2016. () * B. Baert, ''In Response to Echo. Beyond Mimesis or Dissolution as Scopic Regime (with Special Attention to Camouflage)'' (Studies in Iconology, 6), Leuven-Walpole, 2016. () * B. Baert, ''Revisiting Salome’s Dance in Medieval and Early Modern Iconology'' (Studies in Iconology, 7), Leuven-Walpole, 2016. () * B. Baert, "Stains. Trace-Cloth-Symptom", in ''Textile. Journal of Cloth and Culture'', 15, 3, 2017, pp. 270–291. * B. Baert, ''About Stains or the Image as Residue'' (Studies in Iconology, 10), Leuven-Walpole, 2017. () * B. Baert, "Marble and the Sea or Echo Emerging. (A Ricercar)", in ''Treasures of the sea. Art or Craft'', ed. Avinoam Shalem, Espacio, (Tiempo y Forma, Serie VII, Historia del Arte, 5) 2017, pp. 35–54. * B. Baert, "He or she who glimpses, desires, is wounded. A dialogue in the interspace between Aby Warburg and Georges Didi-Huberman", in ''Angelaki. Journal of the Theoretical Humanities'', 23, 4, 2018, pp. 47–79. * B. Baert, ''What about Enthusiasm? A Rehabilitation. Pentecost, Pygmalion, Pathosformel'' (Studies in Iconology, 13), Leuven-Walpole, 2018. () * B. Baert, "Fragments" (Studies in Iconology, 14), ed. S. Heremans, Leuven-Walpole, 2018. () * B. Baert, ''Interruptions & Transitions. Essays on the Senses in Medieval and early Modern Visual Culture'' (Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, 14), Leiden, 2018. () * B. Baert, ''About Sieves and Sieving. Motif, Symbol, Technique, Paradigm'', Berlin, 2019. () * B. Baert, ''De uil in de grot. Gesprekken met beelden, kunstenaars en schrijvers'', Antwerp, 2019. () * B. Baert, ''The Weeping Rock. Revisiting Niobe through Paragone, Pathosformel and Petrification'' (Studies in Iconology, 17), Leuven-Walpole, 2020. () * B. Baert, ''Signed PAN. Erwin Panofsky’s (1892-1968) "The History of Art as a Humanistic Discipline"(Princeton, 1938)'' (Studies in Iconology, 18), Leuven-Walpole-Paris-Bristol, 2020. () * B. Baert, "Noli me tangere in the Codex Egberti (Reichenau, c. 977-93) and in the Gospel-Book of Otto III (Reichenau, 998-1000): Visual Exegesis in Context," in ''Illuminating the Middle Ages: Tributes to Prof. John Lowden'', eds. Laura Cleaver, Alixe Bovey, Leiden, 2020, pp. 36–5. * B. Baert, "Afterlife Studies and the Occasio Grisaille in Mantua (School of Mantegna, 1495-1510)," in ''Ikon'', 13, 2020, pp. 95–108. * B. Baert, "Life is Short, Art is Long, Crisis is Fleeting, Kairos or Weaving the Right Moment," in ''Textile. Journal of Cloth and Culture'', 2020, pp. 1–23.References
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