讲座题目：Reclaiming the Invisible: Women Artists in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

讲 座 人：Laura Iseppi De Filippis

主 持 人：苗淼

讲座时间：2025年12月8日（周一）16：00-18：00

讲座地点：实验楼B区102

讲座人简介：

Laura Iseppi De Filippis (Ph.D., NYU, 2004) is an Associate Professor in the European Studies Department and in the School of English Studies at Xi'an International Studies University. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship. She has taught as an Adjunct Professor at Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, the Università di Verona, and the Accademia di Belle Arti di Verona. Her publications include essays, translations, and reviews. She edited a special issue of Nottingham Medieval Studies (56), Inventing a Path: Studies in Medieval Rhetoric in Honour of Mary Carruthers (Brepols, 2012). Her latest essay, “Mnemotechnics, Vision, and Apocrypha. Sources of imagines agentes in Middle English Drama,” appeared in Mental Libraries: The Reception of the Arts of Memory in Literature and Culture, edited by Julia Dominguez (Routledge, 2025). She is a contributor to The Medieval Review, a Senior Research Fellow of the Centre for Italian Studies at Beihang University, Beijing, and a Fellow of the Society for Mnemonic Studies.

讲座概要：

This lecture explores the often-overlooked contributions of women artists to the visual and intellectual culture of medieval and Renaissance Europe. Far from being marginal figures, women participated actively in artistic production as painters, illuminators, embroiderers, sculptors, patrons, and collaborators within workshops and religious communities. Yet their names and works were frequently absorbed into collective practices, silenced by conventions of anonymity, or later erased from historical narratives. By tracing specific cases—from convent scriptoria, textile workshops, and court ateliers to humanist salons and family workshops—I aim to reconsider how women negotiated authorship, visibility, and professional identity within structures that sought to limit their agency. By situating women’s creative practices within broader networks of patronage, literacy, and transmission, this lecture proposes a revision of the canonical narrative of medieval and Renaissance art—one that acknowledges female artistic labour as formative to Europe’s visual culture and to the epistemologies through which art itself was defined.