Background
Nancy Netzer was born on July 25, 1951 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
Netzer (center) during The McMullen Museum opening.
Steven C. Rockefeller Jr. and Nancy Netzer, director of the McMullen Museum of Art.
Professor Nancy Netzer and students from her class, Art Museum: History, Philosophy & Practice, visit Conservator Barbara Adams Hebard at the John J. Burns Library on October 17, 2011.
(From belt buckles and bracelets to baptismal fronts and r...)
From belt buckles and bracelets to baptismal fronts and religious statuary, this catalogue examines and illustrates 65 pieces of medieval metalwork in the MFA's collection. An essay by research scientist Richard Newman analyzes the materials and techniques of the medieval metalworker, while a section on objects of doubtful authenticity casts light on the increasingly sophisticated methods of determining an object's authenticity.
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1991
(A detailed study of the Trier Gospels, an important early...)
A detailed study of the Trier Gospels, an important early medieval manuscript. Through an investigation of its production, Professor Netzer reveals the cross-cultural influences among the Insular, Continental and Mediterranean worlds in the eighth century, demonstrating in particular the complicated process of cultural interplay that took place in the scriptorium at Echternach. She traces the history of the production of the manuscript through a detailed analysis of its components: the individual texts, construction and arrangement of gatherings, scripts, ornamental initials, canon tables and illustrations. She sheds light on the manuscript's sources, on the different backgrounds of the two scribe-artists involved in its production, on the influences which determined the size and layout of the codex, the role of the pictures within the book, and the place of this manuscript in the development of Insular and Continental book production. This study makes a significant contribution to the understanding of early medieval book production and the influence of missionaries from the British Isles on early Continental culture.
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2008
(Beyond Words accompanies a collaborative exhibition at th...)
Beyond Words accompanies a collaborative exhibition at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College; Harvard University’s Houghton Library; and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Featuring illuminated manuscripts from nineteen Boston-area institutions, this catalog provides a sweeping overview of the history of the book in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, as well as a guide to its production, illumination, functions, and readership. Entries by eighty-five international experts document, discuss, and reproduce more than two hundred and sixty manuscripts and early printed books, many of them little known before now. Beyond Words also explores the history of collecting such books in Boston, an uncharted chapter in the history of American taste. Of broad appeal to scholars and amateur enthusiasts alike, this catalog documents one of the most ambitious exhibitions of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts ever to take place in North America.
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2016
(Medieval art survives today as fragments of larger works,...)
Medieval art survives today as fragments of larger works, usually displayed by historical period, geographic location, artistic medium, or iconographic theme. Fragmented Devotion is the first exhibition to explore the meanings these fragments have in our understanding of medieval art and religious life from the Middle Ages to the present. Most of these objects have never been shown before in North America, and many have not been published since the beginning of the twentieth century. The catalog includes essays by historians, art historians, philosophers, and theologians. The writings discuss the meanings these objects had in medieval religious practice. The essays then go on to trace how those original meanings changed when the objects were collected and installed by Alexander Schnutgen within the larger context of Catholicism and nationalism in nineteenth century Germany. Finally, the contributors look at the 1920s and 1930s when the objects were installed in a museum-like setting and consider this installation in light of the developments in medieval art history and the policies of national socialism.
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Nancy Netzer was born on July 25, 1951 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
Netzer received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Connecticut College in 1978. She graduated from Harvard University with a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1986.
Netzer began her career as an Assistant curator at Museum Fine Arts in Boston in 1982. Since 1990 she has been a Professor of art history at Boston College. Nancy teaches courses on European medieval art of the first millennium and the history and philosophy of museums from the classical period to the present. She has also been a Director of McMullen Museum Art since 1990.
Netzer was a member of Board advisory of International Center of Medieval Art in New York City in 1990-1994. Then she was appointed a Director of that center, where she worked from 1995 to 2000.
(Beyond Words accompanies a collaborative exhibition at th...)
2016(From belt buckles and bracelets to baptismal fronts and r...)
1991(Medieval art survives today as fragments of larger works,...)
(A detailed study of the Trier Gospels, an important early...)
2008Netzer is a member of Antiquaries Society.
On November 10, 1974, Nancy Netzer married Robert A. S. Silberman.