Barbara G. Lane
{{short description|American art historian}}
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Barbara Greenhouse Lane (May 31, 1941 - September 18, 2023){{Cite web |last=Office of Communications and Marketing |date=2023-09-29 |title=In Memoriam: Art History Professor Emerita Barbara G. Lane |url=https://www.gc.cuny.edu/news/memoriam-art-history-professor-emerita-barbara-g-lane |access-date=2023-11-18 |website=CUNY Graduate Center |language=en}} was an art historian, and chair of the art department in the graduate studies and research program at Queens College, City University of New York."[http://www.qc.cuny.edu/Academics/GradStudies/Pages/Art.aspx Graduate Studies and Research] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100823025411/http://www.qc.cuny.edu/Academics/GradStudies/Pages/Art.aspx |date=2010-08-23 }}." Queens College. Retrieved on September 30, 2013. She was a scholar of the Northern Renaissance, early Netherlandish painting, and medieval art.
Education
Barbara Lane went to Barnard College, where she discovered her calling for art history and met her husband, Joseph M. Lane, whom she married in 1963. She received her doctorate in 1970 from the University of Pennsylvania. She taught at the University of Maryland and at Rutgers University during the 70s. Lane has been at Queens College since 1979, and in the graduate program since 2000. She has chaired panels at four annual meetings of the College Art Association."[http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Doctoral-Programs/Art-History/Faculty-Bios/Barbara-Lane Barbara Lane]." Art History Program, Graduate Center, Queens College. Retrieved on October 1, 2013.
Career
Lane has performed extensive research on Hans Memling; she was awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1987 and 1990 in order to further her work."[https://apps.neh.gov/publicquery/default.aspx?f=1&gn=FE-21359-87 Grant number: FE-21359-87]." National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved on September 30, 2013."[https://apps.neh.gov/publicquery/main.aspx?f=1&gn=FB-25517-88 Grant number: FB-25517-88]." National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved on October 1, 2013. Her paper "The Patron and the Pirate: The Mystery of Memling's Gdańsk Last Judgment" was published in Art Bulletin in 1991. On October 26, 2005 she delivered a lecture entitled "Memling’s Influence on Italian Portraiture from Leonardo to Raphael" at the Frick Museum."[http://www.frick.org/sites/default/files/pdf/press/Memling_release.pdf Frick Collection is the Exclusive U.S. Venue of the Most Comprehensive Exhibition of Memling’s Portraits]" (PDF). Frick Collection. Retrieved on September 30, 2013.
Selected works
- 1978. "Rogier's Saint John and Miraflores Altarpieces Reconsidered." Art Bulletin, Vol. 60, No. 4, p. 655–672
- 1984. The Altar and the Altarpiece: Sacramental Themes in Early Netherlandish Painting. New York: Icon Editions. {{ISBN|978-0064301336}}
- 1988. "Sacred versus profane in early Netherlandish Painting." Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art, Vol. 18, No. 3, p. 106–115
- 1989. "Requiem aeternam dona eis: The Beaune Last Judgment and the Mass of the Dead." Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art, Vol 19, No. 3, p. 167–180
- 1991. "The Patron and the Pirate: The Mystery of Memling's Gdańsk Last Judgment." Art Bulletin, Vol. 73, No. 4, p. 623–640
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