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  Degrees:

BA, University of California, Berkeley.

Doctorat de Troisième Cycle, Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne.

 

  Professor of Art History and History

 

  Academic Department:

Art History and Fine Arts

 

 

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Profile updated: May-10

 
 

 

Kathleen Wilson-Chevalier attended the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America which was held in Venice from April 7-8. She chaired a session at the Fondazione Cini in which Sabine Frommel (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris) and Lorenz Baumer (Chair, Classical Archeology, Université de Genève) presented papers on French architecture and sculpture during the 1540s. Her own paper, "Madeleine de Savoie - Madame la Connétable - and the Gendering of Montmorency Patronage" was presented in a session chaired by Sheila ffolliott (Emeritus, George Mason University) at the University of Ca'Foscari; companion papers were given by Elizabeth L'Estrange (Université de Liège) and Peggy Brown (Emeritus, CUNY).  Sophie Cassagnes-Brouquet (Université de Toulouse) published a positive review of her book Patronnes et mécènes en France à la Renaissance in Clio (29-2009), available online. This book also led to an interview which will be integrated into a prime time television program dedicated to the patronage of Diane de Poitiers at Anet, to be aired this summer on France 2 as part of its series “Secrets d’Histoire.”

 
 
 

 

Professor Wilson-Chevalier has recently been working on queens and mistresses as patrons of art in Renaissance France. She teaches courses on French and Italian Renaissance art; Paris; and women in art and history. She has received "The American University of Paris Board of Trustees Award for Distinguished Teaching".

 

 

 

 

 

"La mise en image du vieillissement en France à la Renaissance", in Vieillir à la Renaissance. Ed. Colette Winn and Cathy Yandell. Paris, Honoré Champion, pp. 245-274, 2009.

 

Patronnes et mécènes en France à la Renaissance. Ed., with the collaboration of Eugénie Pascal. Publications de l’Université de Saint-Étienne (with the participation of The American University of Paris), Saint-Étienne, 2007.

 

Dictionary entries in Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance. Italy, France, and England. Ed. Anne Larsen, Carol Levin, and Diana Robin. Santa Barbara (CA)/Denver (CO)/ Oxford (UK): ABC-CLIO (“Claude de France”, pp. 80-81, and “Diane de Poitiers”, pp. 296-298), 2007.

 

"Feminising the Warrior at Francis I’s Fontainebleau", in Masculinities in Sixteenth-Century France, Proceedings of the Eighth Cambridge French Renaissance Colloquium 5-7 July, 2003. Ed. Philip Ford and Paul White, Cambridge French Colloquia (8), Cambridge (Clare College), 2006, pp. 23-59.

 

Review of the Louvre exhibition Le Primatice (2004-2005), in Bulletin de l’Association des Historiens de l’Art italien, n°11, 2005, pp.160-162.

 

Review of Claudie Martin-Ulrich, La persona de la princesse au XVIe siècle: personnage littéraire et personnage politique (Paris : Honoré Champion, 2004), in Renaissance Quarterly, n°1, Spring 2005, pp. 251-252.

 

"La représentation de la lectrice bellifontaine et le système de civilité à la cour de François Ier." Lectrices d'Ancien Régime. Ed. Isabelle Brouard-Arends. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2003.

 

"Art patronage and women (including Habsburg) in the orbit of King Francis I." Renaissance Studies. 16. 4 2002: 475-524. [Awarded the Nancy Roelker Prize].

 

"Les déboires de Diane au château de Fontainebleau." Le mythe de Diane en France au XVIe siècle. Series 14. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2002.

 

Royaume de femynie: Pouvoirs, contraintes, espaces de liberté des femmes, de la Renaissance à la Fronde, eds. K. Wilson-Chevalier & E. Viennot, Paris, Honore Champion, 1999.

 

Critical Review of the exhibition "Peintures pour un chateau: Cinquante tableaux (XVIe-XIXe siecle) des collections du chateau de Fontainebleau", in Bulletin de l'Association des Historiens de l'Art Italien, N. 5, 1998-1999, pp.44-47.

 

"Alexander the Great at Fontainebleau" & other contributions to Alexander the Great in European Art, exhibition catalogue, Thessaloniki, Greece, 1997-1998.

 

"Sebastian Brant: The Key to Understanding Luca Penni's Justice and the Seven Deadly Sins", Art Bulletin, Vol. LXXVIII, n. 2. 1996, pp. 236-263.

 

"Women on Top at Fontainebleau", The Oxford Art Journal, vol. 16-I, 1993, pp. 34-48.

 

"Le Songe dans l'art bellifontain", Le Songe à la Renaissance, ed. Fr. Charpentier, Université de Saint-Etienne, 1990, pp. 113-122.

 

"L'Iconographie bellifontaine", Les Nouvelles de l'Estampe (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale), 1988, n. 98, pp. 4 -14.

 

L'Estampe en France au XVIe siècle: Iconographie et contradictions, exhibition catalogue, Chateau de Nemours, 1985-1986.

 

"Le Père Dan et le Trésor des merveilles", in XVIIe Siècle, n. 138 (Etudes d'histoire et théorie de l'art en France au XVIIe siècle.) 1983, pp 31-40.

 

"La posterité de l'école de Fontainebleau dans la gravure du XVIIe siècle", Les Nouvelles de l'Estamp,. n. 62, 1982, pp. 5-16.

 

"Etude sur l'ouvrage du P. Pierre Dan: Le Trésor des merveilles de la Maison royale de Fontainebleau (Paris, 1642)", L'Information d'Histoire de l'Art, Nov.-Dec. 1975, pp. 218-221.

 

"Considerations sur le Trésor des merveilles du Père Dan." Actes du Colloque International sur l'Art de Fontainbleau, Paris, C.N.R.S., 1975, pp. 39-44.

 

 

 

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Contact Kathleen Chevalier

 

 

chevalier@aup.fr

+33 1 40.62.06.00 ext. 633

Bosquet, AUP: 31, Av. Bosquet, 75007, Paris (Métro: La Tour-Maubourg, Ecole Militaire, Alma-Marceau, Invalides)

 

 

 
 
 
 
 

 

 
 
 
 
 

Christine Baltay

Associate Professor of Art History; Chair, Department of Art History and Fine Arts.

 

Filiz Eda Burhan

Associate Professor of Art History

 

Kathleen Chevalier

Professor of Art History and History

 

Clara DeLamater

Associate Professor of Fine Arts

 

Robert Ogle

Instructor of Fine Arts

 

Ralph Petty

Associate Professor of Fine Arts; University Curator.

 

Anna Russakoff

Assistant Professor of Art History

 

Jonathan Shimony

Assistant Professor of Fine Arts

 
 

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