Susie Nash is the Deborah Loeb Brice Professor of Renaissance Art at the

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, London.Susie Nash.
The Courtauld Institute, 2013. Retrieved 21 April 2013
Archived here.
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(BA 1986, PhD 1993) she has been at the Courtauld. She is an expert on the art of the

Northern Renaissance The Northern Renaissance was the Renaissance that occurred in Europe north of the Alps, developing later than the Italian Renaissance, and in most respects only beginning in the last years of the 15th century. It took different forms in the vari ...

, specialising in

Early Netherlandish painting Early Netherlandish painting is the body of work by artists active in the Burgundian Netherlands, Burgundian and Habsburg Netherlands during the 15th- and 16th-century Northern Renaissance period, once known as the Flemish Primitives. It flour ...

and

illuminated manuscripts An illuminated manuscript is a formally prepared manuscript, document where the text is decorated with flourishes such as marginalia, borders and Miniature (illuminated manuscript), miniature illustrations. Often used in the Roman Catholic Churc ...

and 15th century sculpture. Professor Nash is known for her work on the Chartreuse de Champmol in

Dijon Dijon (, ; ; in Burgundian language (Oïl), Burgundian: ''Digion'') is a city in and the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Côte-d'Or Departments of France, department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Regions of France, region in eas ...

, and in particular the Great Cross, or

Well of Moses The Well of Moses (French: ''Puits de Moïse'') is a monumental sculpture recognised as the masterpiece of the Dutch artist Claus Sluter (1340–1405–06), assisted by his nephew Claus de Werve. It was executed by Sluter and his workshop i ...

, by Claus Sluter and

Jean Malouel Jean Malouel, or Jan Maelwael in his native Dutch, ( 1365 – 1415) was a Dutch artist who was the court painter of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy and his successor John the Fearless, working in the International Gothic style. Documented ...

, published in a series of three articles in the Burlington Magazine.Nash, S., ‘Claus Sluter’s Well of Moses for the Chartreuse de Champmol reconsidered,’ Parts I, II and III, The Burlington Magazine, vol 147 (2005), pp. 798-809; vol. 148 (2006), pp. 456-467; vol. 150 (2008), pp. 724-741 She is a founder member of the Research Centre for Illuminated Manuscripts and the Courtauld Sculptural Processes Study Group, and a Trustee of th
Caroline Villers Research Fellowship

Selected publications

There is a fuller lis
here
with some available as PDFs. *''Trade in Artists' Materials. Markets and Commerce in Europe to 1700'', co-editor with Jo Kirby and Joanna Cannon, Archetype Publications, London, 2010. *''Northern Renaissance Art'', Oxford,

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, 2008; part of the Oxford History of Art series. *‘Claus Sluter’s Well of Moses for the Chartreuse de Champmol reconsidered,’ Parts I, II and III, ''The Burlington Magazine'', vol 147 (2005), pp. 798–809; vol. 148 (2006), pp. 456–467; vol. 150 (2008), pp. 724–741 *''Between France and Flanders: Manuscript Illumination in Amiens in the Fifteenth Century'', British Library Press and

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, London and Toronto, 1999. * "The Lord’s Crucifix of Costly Workmanship: Colour, Collaboration and the Making of Meaning on the Well of Moses" in ''Circumlitio. The Polychromy of Antique and Late Medieval Sculpture'', ed. V. Brinkmann, O. Primavesi and M. Hollein (Frankfurt am Main, 2010), pp. 356–381
full PDF

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nash, Susie Living people British art historians Academics of the Courtauld Institute of Art Year of birth missing (living people) Alumni of the University of Reading British women art historians Scholars of Netherlandish art