Claire LaBrecque
Title: Professor - Senior Scholar
Email: c.labrecque@uwinnipeg.ca
Teaching Areas:
Medieval and Renaissance art & architecture; 12th - 17th century stained glass; pilgrimage art and architecture.
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), as well as Late Gothic/Early Renaissance architecture in France
Publications:
Manuscript in progress (funded through SSHRC Research Grant): C. Labrecque, J. Bugslag Shedding Light on Collections of Pre-Modern Stained Glass in Canada, Vol.2. of the Canadian Corpus Vitrearum series: The Collection of the University Laval, Québec.
Co-authored with K. Berserik, “Een recente ontdekking. Twee 17de-eeuwse ramen uit Lier in Canada”, in Liera Elegans 2.0, No.17, 30 April 2026;
Labrecque, C., “The Strange Journey of Three Thirteenth-Century Medallions of Stained Glass from Paris to the Musée des Métiers d’art du Québec (MUMAQ)”, in Vidimus, No.148, 2 Sept. 2024; https://www.vidimus.org/issue-148/thirteenth-century-medallions-mumaq/
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) https://www.vidimus.org/issue-119/feature-38/
‘‘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; https://irhis.hypotheses.org/3274
“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
‘‘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.
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/
Peregrinations – Journal of Medieval Art & Architecture https://digital.kenyon.edu/perejournal/
International Center of Medieval Art https://www.medievalart.org/