Janet Snyder
Associate Professor
Presentations
"Portals to Fashion: Secular Clothing and Its Significance in Twelfth-Century French Church Sculpture," Medieval Academy of America, Boston, MA, 1April 2006
"Bearing Witness: The Physical Expression of the Spiritual in the Narrative Cycle At Assisi" St. Francis and the Traditions of Spirituality: Multidisciplinary Approaches, 20 October 2005, University of North Carolina, Asheville Campus
"The Miraculous Moment: the spiritual experience in late thirteenth-century frescos at Assisi"The International Medieval Congress of the International Medieval Institute at the University of Leeds, England, 15 July 2004.
"The Limestone Sculpture Provenance Project: Science Meets Art" in A New Look at the Art of the Middle Ages: II Re-seeing and newly understanding works in Romanesque Spain and France SECAC 2005 Annual Conference, 28 October, 2005, Little Rock, AR.
"The Support of the Peers: sculpture and authority under Louis le Jeune" The International Medieval Congress of the International Medieval Institute at the University of Leeds, England, 14 July 2005
"Spiritual Experience in the Thirteenth-Century Narrative Cycle Frescos in San Francesco, Assisi" Southeastern Medieval Association, Charleston, SC, 16 October 2004.
“Costume as Communication: Clothing and Textiles Represented in Mid-Twelfth-Century Northern French Church Portal Sculpture,” The International Medieval Congress of the International Medieval Institute at the University of Leeds, England, 9 July 2001.
“Moving Medieval Mountains: The Exportation of Liais de Paris for Architectural Sculpture,” Canadian Congress of Medieval Art Historians, Montreal, Canada, 23 March 2001.
Papers presented at The International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI:
"A good head for business: Evidence for standardization in medieval stone sculpture," in The Significance of Sameness: Standardization and Imitation in Medieval Art, The 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2003, Kalamazoo, MI.
“Confessions of a Material Girl: The Impact of the Properties of Quarried Stone on the Design of Medieval Sculpture,” for A Scientific Approach to Material Culture and Resources: Resources and Technology of Medieval Stone, 36th Congress, 5 May 2001.
"Costumes in the Portfolio," for The Portfolio of Villard de Honnecourt, 35th Congress, May, 2000.
"On the Road Again: Limestone Sculpture in twelfth-century France" in Stone I: Working with Stone: Resources and Technology. 34th Congress, May 1999.
“Cinches, Sashes and Ceintures: Eastern influences on medieval court dress” in “Medieval Textiles: Object, Text and Image,” 33rd Congress, May 1998.
"Locating Women in Medieval Art: Images, Artists and Patronage" in Teaching Medieval Women in Introductory Courses: A Roundtable, 33rd Congress, May 1998.
“The Prestige of Lutèce: Limestone of Paris in Monuments Outside the Capital” in “Medieval Paris,” 32nd Congress, May 1997.
“From Content to Form: The fossilization of the dress of the Virgin in the twelfth century,” 31rst Congress, May 1996.
“Vestiary Language at the Royal Portal of Chartres: A New Significance,” 29th Congress, May 1994.
Saturday talks presented at The Cloisters of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
"Courtly Clothing in Medieval Art" 10 September 2005
“Power and Piety: the Language of Clothing in the Middle Ages,” 12 March 2005
“Status and Style: Clothing the Elite in Medieval Art,” 24 January 2004
"The business of medieval stone sculpture -- color, material, form." 12 April 2003.
"Provenance and Production: Looking at medieval stone sculpture," 2002.
“Color and Form in Sculpture,” 2001.
“Shadows of Brilliance: Once-Painted Sculpture in the Middle Ages,” 2001.
"Costumes of the Hunt: Clothing in The Unicorn Tapestries," 2000.
"From Head to Toe: Women's Courtly Costume in the Middle Ages," 1999.
“Dressing the Part: Knights and Ladies in Medieval Art,”28 September 1996
"The Language of Dress in the Middle Ages," 1995.
"Women’s Fashions in the Medieval Court," 1994.
“Courtesy and Courtly Costume in Medieval Religious Art at The Cloisters: reading the subtext,” 1993.
Lectures at The Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts
"Wombs, Warriors, and Exotic Textiles" 9 July 2006.
Political Art in Twelfth-Century France and Norman England" 4 August 2005.
“The Devil is in the Details: architecture at Chautauqua"31 July 2002
"Reading Medieval Cathedrals like a Book,” 5 July 2001.
"How it was Built: Stone in Sculpture and Architecture of the Middle Ages," 2 Aug 2000.
"Lords and Ladies: Medieval Dress in Cathedrals," 5 July 2000.
Other presentations
“Blanche Lazzell Rediscovered,” Catherine H. Campbell Lecture, Mary Schiller Myers School of Art, University of Akron, 28 February 2003.
"More than meets the eye: medieval French sculpture," Guest Scholar lecture,13 March 2002, Division of Art, West Virginia University Creative Arts Center Choral Recital Hall.
"Modern Native American Painting: an ancient tradition transformed by materials," Lifelong Learners, WVU outreach lecture, April 2002.
“Cloaked in Meaning — Courtly Costume in Medieval Art,” Friday evening lecture, Uris Auditorium, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 12 March 1999.
"Inside Gazing Out: The Use of Medieval Architecture with Intent in Recent Film" and presider for the session, "Image, Text, and the Built Environment" for The Female Gaze, the 25th Annual Colloquium on Modern Literature and Film, West Virginia University, 13 October, 2000.
"Power Through Images," Fictive Clothing of Northern French Early Gothic Sculpture," The Third West Virginia University, Senator Rush D. Holt History Conference, 18 September, 1999.
"The Box of Daylight: Images of Legend into Light," for Literature into Light, 24th Annual Colloquium on Modern Literature and Film, West Virginia University, 17 September, 1999
"An Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages: Chartres Cathedral," Lifelong Learners, Feb 1998.
“Skin(s) in the Art of the Middle Ages,” Nude Up Symposium, School of Art, New York University, 1995
“Clothing as Communication: the Body and Clothing in northern French Early Gothic Sculpture” Illinois Medieval Association, Loyola University, Chicago, 1994
"Clothing and Reality in Twelfth-Century France," The Canon West Talk, Laymen's Club of St. John the Divine, New York City, 15 November 1993.
