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The University of Winnipeg

Claire LaBrecque

Claire LaBrecque Title: Professor
Phone: 204-786-9295
Email: c.labrecque@uwinnipeg.ca

Teaching Areas:
Medieval and Renaissance art & architecture; 12th - 17th Century stained glass; pilgrimage art and architecture.

Courses:

  • HIST-1011  Cross Currents in Global Art
  • HIST-2805  The Power of Art: Visual Worship & Violence
  • HIST-2806  Monstrous Art
  • HIST-3813  Art in Focus - Rogier van der Weyden
  • HIST-3816  Art & Architecture of Pilgrimage
  • HIST-3840  Seventeenth Century Art
  • HIST-3841  Arts of the Middle Ages
  • HIST-3842  Italian Renaissance Art
  • HIST-3843  Northern Renaissance Art
  • HIST-4801  Special Topics in Art History
  • HIST-4803  Gothic Revival Art & Architecture in Winnipeg

Research Interests:

I work on the architecture and monumental arts of the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance in Western Europe. I am currently studying pre-modern stained glass (12th to 18th cent.) in Canadian collections (project funded by a SSHRC research grant – 2018-2021), as well as Late Gothic/Early Renaissance architecture in France and the narrativity/theatricality in the sculpture of church portals from that period.

 

 Links:

Corpus Vitrearum International  http://www.corpusvitrearum.org/

Vidimus, online publication on stained glass, Ed.  (English Heritage)   https://vidimus.org/

Canadian Society of Medievalists https://canadianmedievalists.org/

Institute for Stained Glass in Canada https://www.glassincanada.org/

Peregrinations – Journal of Medieval Art & Architecture https://digital.kenyon.edu/perejournal/

International Center of Medieval Art https://www.medievalart.org/

Publications:

Manuscript in progress (funded through SSHRC Research Grant): A. Isler-de Jongh, C. Labrecque, J. Bugslag and R. Sanfaçon, Shedding Light on Collections of Pre-Modern Stained Glass in Canada, Vol.2. of the Canadian Corpus Vitrearum series: Québec.

Co-authored with J. Bugslag, “Navigating Cultural Connections: The Stained Glass of Les Portes-Cartier”, in The Journal of Stained Glass, Vol. XLIII, July 2020, pp.112-142.

 

“Scénographie du portail flamboyant des églises du Nord-Est de la France et évocation du passé”, in L'architecture flamboyante en France. Autour de Roland Sanfaçon, ed. Dr. Stéphanie Diane Daussy, Villeneuve d’Ascq, Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, June 2020, pp.428-453; http://www.septentrion.com/en/livre/?GCOI=27574100919700

Co-authored with J. Bugslag, “Les paysages de Limoëlou: Approche novatrice du vitrail domestique au XVIIe siècle”, in Stained Glass in the 17th Century. Continuity, Invention, Twilight, ed. M. Manderyck, I. Lecocq and Y. Vanden Bemden, Proceedings of the 29 International Colloquium of the Corpus Vitrearum, Antwerp, 2-6 July 2018, Brussels, Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, 2018, pp.161-163 : https://www.academia.edu/38171073/Stained_glass_in_the_17th_century._Continuity_Invention_Twilight

“More Stained-Glass Fragments from Park Abbey (Leuven) Discovered in Québec”, in Vidimus, Issue 119 (March 2018) http://vidimus.org/issues/issue-119/feature/

‘‘Dépôt lapidaire de l’ancienne église Saint-Wulphy de Rue (Somme)’’, in Regards sur les dépôts lapidaires de la France du Nord, ed. Delphine Hanquiez, Centre de Recherches archéologiques et historiques anciennes et médiévales (CRAHM), Brepols Publishers, 2011, pp.69-80; http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782902685820-1

 “Volto Santo” and “Church Treasury”, in Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage, ed. Larissa Taylor. Leiden, E.J.Brill, 2009; https://brill.com/view/title/11562

“Les Trésoreries dans l’architecture picarde à la fin du Moyen Âge,” in Quadrilobe – histoire et patrimoine de Picardie (Departmental Journal of the Archives of Picardy, France), no 1: October, 2006, pp.123-134.

‘‘From Painting to Sculpture: The Delayed Impact of Represented Architectural Models from the Time of Rogier van der Weyden on the Pilgrimage Setting of the St. Esprit Chapel at Rue in Picardy”, in Art and Architecture of Late Medieval Pilgrimage, ed. Sarah Blick and Rita Tekippe. Leiden: E.J. Brill, November 2005, pp.77-95; https://brill.com/view/title/17968   

“Nicodemus’’ and “Veronica’’, in Holy People of the World: An Encyclopaedia, Santa Barbara, ABC-Clio, 2004.

‘‘Du ‘gothique picard’ au ‘picard renaissant’: les voûtes de la chapelle du Saint-Esprit de Rue’’, RACAR (Revue d’art canadienne / Canadian Art Review) XXIII, 1-2/1996 (Autumn 1998), pp.14-21.

‘‘Réflexions sur le concept d’exposition Icône-Ikona’’, in The Icon in Canada: Recent Findings from the Canadian Museum of Civilization, ed. Robert B. Klymatsz. Hull, Canadian Museum of Civilization,1996, Mercury Series, no. 69, pp.57-64.

‘‘La chapelle du Saint-Esprit de Rue: modification de la typologie et de la fonction architecturale dans un édifice de la fin du Moyen Âge’’, Proceedings of the 10th Colloque interuniversitaire d'histoire de l'art, in Perspective, Fall 1995, pp.45-49.

Co-authored with Katia Macias-Valadez, ‘‘L’art médiéval dans les collections québécoises’’, in Cap-aux-Diamants, Summer 1995, pp. 26-30.