lynn f. jacobs
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Department Chair and Associate Professor
Art History, Northern Renaissance
Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
M.A., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
B.A., Princeton University
Lynn F. Jacobs teaches courses in medieval, Italian Renaissance, Northern Renaissance and Baroque Art. Her research is currently focused on the study of Netherlandish painted triptychs of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. She has published several articles on triptychs, and is now writing a book entitled, Opening Doors: The Early Netherlandish Triptych Reinterpreted. Professor Jacobs has also published widely on other aspects of Northern Renaissance art history, notably on Netherlandish sculpted altarpieces and on French manuscript illumination. She has received research grants from the Belgian-American Educational Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities; in 1990 she was awarded the Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize, presented by the College Art Association for an especially distinguished article published in The Art Bulletin. Lynn is also the co-author of the Professors’ Guide to Getting Good Grades in College published by Harper-Collins (June 2006).
Selected publications by Lynn F. Jacobs
"Fabrication et modes de production " chapter 2, in Miroirs du Sacré: Les Retables sculptés à Bruxelles (Xve-XVIe siècles (Brussels, CFC-Editions, 2005).
"The Triptychs of Hieronymus Bosch," The Sixteenth Century Journal 31 (2000), 1009-1035.
Early Netherlandish Carved Altarpieces, 1380-1550: Medieval Tastes and Mass Marketing (Cambridge University Press, 1998).
"The Master of Getty Ms. 10 and 15th Century Manuscript Illumination in Lyon," J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 21 (1993), 55-83.
"The Inverted "T"-Shape in Early Netherlandish Altarpieces: Studies in the Relationship Between Painting and Sculpture," Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 57 (1991), 33-65.
"The Marketing and Standardization of South Netherlandish Carved Altarpieces: Limits on the Role of the Patron," Art Bulletin 71 (1989), 208-229.