Dr. Anne Bertrand-Dewsnap

Senior Lecturer for Core Art History
Faculty Coordinator, Marist-LdM Art History and Conservation Studies

Bio

Dr. Anne Bertrand-Dewsnap works on seventeenth-century French and Italian paintings and prints.  Her specific areas of scholarship are the paintings of Philippe de Champaigne, the portraits and self-portraits of Simon Vouet, and the prints of Jacques Callot.  She has lectured on 17th-century French and Italian topics in colleges and museums throughout the United States as well as abroad and has received grants from the Andrew Mellon Foundation and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.

Education

PhD, Art History, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
MA, Art History, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
BA, Art History, Magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, Smith College, Northampton, MA

Research Interests/Areas of Focus

Seventeenth-century French and Italian paintings and prints

Selected Publications

The Story of an Unlikely Acquisition 鈥� Jacques Callot鈥檚 Miseries of War.  Marist Books Publications, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York, 2018.

Lois Walsh 鈥� Non Finito. Exhibition pamphlet, Marist College Art Gallery, Marist College, New York, November 2017.

鈥淭he Mythic Figure and the Heroic Artist.鈥�  In The Mythic Figure, exhibition catalogue, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, 2013.

Philippe de Champaigne ou la figure du peintre jans茅niste: Lecture critique des rapports entre Port-Royal et les arts [Marianne Cojannot-Le Blanc, ed., Paris, Nolin, 2011].  In caa.reviews online, March 2012.  Address: http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/1175

鈥淟es portraits italiens de Vouet: le langage pictural de l鈥櫭e.鈥�  In Simon Vouet (les ann茅es italiennes, 1613/1627), exhibition catalogue, Mus茅e des Beaux-Arts, Nantes and Mus茅e des Beaux-Arts et d鈥橝rch茅ologie, Besan莽on, Hazan, 2008, pp.39-48.

Selected Presentations

鈥淰anitas or Veritas: The Self-Portraits of Renaissance and Baroque Women Painters.鈥�  16th Annual Women and Society Conference, Marist College, Poughkeepsie (2007)

鈥淎 D茅cor for Meditative Retreat and Political Subterfuge: Philippe de Champaigne鈥檚 Landscapes for Anne of Austria鈥檚 Val-de-Gr芒ce.鈥�  College Art Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia (2002)

鈥淎ndr茅 F茅libien on Philippe de Champaigne: When Moral Fortitude Replaces Artistic Genius.鈥�  Annual Conference of the Universities Art Association of Canada, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Canada (1999)

鈥淢aria de鈥� Medici and Anne of Austria: The Politics of Religious Patronage and the Shaping of Female Regal Identity in Seventeenth-Century France.鈥�  24th Annual Conference of the Association of Art Historians, University of Plymouth, Exeter, England (1998)

鈥淎nne of Austria and the Convent of the Val-de-Gr芒ce: A Transgression of Space.鈥�  Feminist Art and Art History Conference, Barnard College, New York (1998)

Awards and Honors

Andrew Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Travel Fellowship
Zonta Foundation Award

Dr. Anne Bertrand-Dewsnap

Contact Information

Academic School

School of Communications and the Arts

Office

Steel Plant 135

Email

Anne.Bertrand@Marist.edu

Phone

845-575-3000, ext. 6117