Fulbright visiting Professor from 1 April to 31 July 2014

• PhD 1986 Columbia University (New York)
• MA 1976 Queens College of the City University of New York 
• BA 1973 Syracuse University (New York)
  
   

Focus in research and teaching

• Medieval Art
• Northern Renaissance Art
• Late Medieval Art in Europe
• Gothic Painting and Prints
• Northern Renaissance and Reformation Art
• History of Prints

Honors and Awards
 

Stewart's research, centered around secular imagery of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Germany and the Netherlands, including peasant festivals, has been supported by Fulbright, National Endowment for the Humanities, Getty Research Institute, and International Fine Print Dealers Association fellowships and grants. Her co-edited volume, Saints, Sinners, and Sisters, received Honorable Mention by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women for a collaborative project published in 2003.

Selected Publications and Presentations

• Grand Scale. “Woodcuts as Wallpaper: Sebald Beham and Large Prints from Nuremberg,” New York: Yale UP, 2008, 73-86.
• Before Bruegel Sebald Beham and the Origins of Peasant Festival Imagery. Burlington, VT and Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, Limited, 2008.
• Carroll, Jane Louise, and Alison G. Stewart. Saints, Sinners, and Sisters : Gender and Northern Art in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Grand Rapids: Ashgate, Limited, 2003.
• “Taverns in Nuremberg Prints at the Time of the German Reformation,” book chapter for The World of the Tavern. Public Houses in Early Modern Europe, edited by Beat Kümin and B. Ann Tlusty (historians at Bern, Switzerland, and Bucknell University), Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2002, ch. 6, pp. 95-115.
• “Head of a Jester,” Print Quarterly, co-authored with Greg Davies, Print Quarterly, 19/2 (June 2002), 170-74
• “Printmaking” in Medieval Germany. An Encyclopedia, (Garland, 2001)
• “Large Noses and Changing Meanings in 16th-century German Prints,” Print Quarterly, 12/4 (1995), 343-60
• “Paper Festivals and Popular Entertainment: The Kermis Woodcuts of Sebald Beham in Reformation Nuremberg,” Sixteenth-Century Journal, 24/2 (1993), 301-50
• “Sebald Beham’s Fountain of Youth and Bathhouse Woodcut: Popular Entertainment in Large Prints by the Little Masters,” Register of the Spencer Museum of Art, 6/6 (1989), 64-88
• Unequal Lovers. New York: Abaris Books, 1977.

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Scholarship of John Mung Program as a guest researcher from 30 March to 30 September 2014

Biography
 

• 1987 - 1991: Studied Archaeology in the Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University
• 1991: Bachelor of Arts with the graduation thesis “Ritual and Arrangement of the Clay Statues in Ancient Japan”
• 1993 - 1995: Studied Art History in the Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University
• 1995: Bachelor of Arts with the graduation thesis “Giotto’s Narrative Paintings: ‘the Annunciation’ of the Arena Chapel”
• 1995 - 1997: Pursued the Study of Art History in the Master’s Course of the Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University on a scholarship of The Japan Scholarship Society
• 1997: Master of Art with the master’s thesis “Albrecht Dürer’s ‘Bagnacavallo Madonna’“
• 1997 - 2000: Advanced the research in the Doctoral Course of the Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University on a JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
• 1998 - 1999: Studied at the University of Vienna
• 2001 - 2009: Lecturer/ Associate Professor in the Department of Arts, School of Literature, Arts and Cultural Studies, Kinki University
• 2003: Doctor of Philosophy at Kyoto University with the dissertation “The Pictorialization of Dürer’s Drawings in Northern Europe in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries” (Academic supervisor: Professor Toshiharu Nakamura)
• September2007 - March 2008:Studied at the Max-Planck Institute for Art History in Rome on the researchfellowship of Kinki University
• From April 2009: Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University
• 31. October - 13. November 2013:Short-term stay at the University of Vienna on Researcher Exchange Programs with Overseas Partner Institutions of Kyoto University

Focus in research and teaching

• The diversification of painting forms in Northern Europe in the 16th and early 17th centuries
• The artistic relationship between Northern Europe and Italy in the 16th century
• Albrecht Dürer and the reception of his art in Northern Europe of the 16th and early 17th centuries

Selected Publications

I. On the birth and development of the copperplate painting in the sixteenth century from the viewpoint of the cultural exchange between Northern Europe and Italy

• “Spranger’s Italian Period and his Copperplate Paintings”, in Kyoto Studies in Aesthetics and Art History, 10, 2011, pp. 133-162. [Japanese/ English version is now in preparation]
• “Between the Ephemerality and the Immortality: Bronzino’s >Allegory of Happiness<”, in Kyoto Studies in Aesthetics and Art History, 9, 2010, pp. 1-34. [Japanese/ English version is now in preparation]
• “Birth of the Painting on Copperplate”, in Kyoto Studies in Aesthetics and Art History, 8, 2009, pp. 1-31. [Japanese/ English version is now in preparation]
• “‘Brughel detto Infernale’: >The Fire of Troy< by Jan Brueghel the Elder”, in Chaos, 2, Graduate School of Literature, Arts and Cultural Studies, Kinki University, 2005, pp. 131-161. [Japanese/English version is now in preparation]

II. On the copies and reception of Dürer’s drawings in Northern Europe in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries

• The Pictorialization of Dürer’s Drawings in Northern Europe in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Peter Lang, Bern, 2009. [English]
• “Dürer as Norm: Reception und Adaptation of the Northern Renaissance at the Court of Rudolf II”, in Report of the 21st Century COE Program: Towards a Center of Excellence for the Study of Humanities in the Age of Globalization, 2-2, Part of Philosophy 1, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, 2004, pp.257-291. [Japanese]
• “Dürer Collection and Dürer Renaissance at the Court of Rudolf II: >St. Eustace<”, in Kajima-Studies in Art, 20, The Kajima Foundation for Art, 2003, pp. 504-513. [Japanese]
• “Dürer and Jan Brueghel the Elder: One Aspect of the Pictorialization of Dürer’s Drawings at the Court of Rudolf II”, in Aesthetics, 10, The Japanese Society for Aesthetics, 2002, pp. 61-73. [English]
• “On the Model Drawings for >The Ober St. Veit Altarpiece< : Some Aspects of Dürer’s Chiaroscuro Drawings”, in Studies in Aesthetics and Art History, 19, Department of Aesthetics and Art History, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, 1998, pp. 185-221. [Japanese]

III. On various subjects

• “The Sacred, Family and Politics: Lucas Cranach the Elder’s >The Holy Kinship<”, in Toshiharu Nakamura (ed.), Images of Intimacy in Eastern and Western Art, Brill, Leiden, 2014. [Forthcoming, English]
• “Albrecht Dürer’s >Landauer Altarpiece<: Painter and Sculptor in Nuremberg”, in Studies in Western Art, 7, 2002, pp. 24-41. [Japanese / Abstract in English]
• “Albrecht Dürer’s >Bagnacavallo Madonna<”, in Bijutsushi: Journal of the Japan Art History Society, 146, The Japan Art History Society, 1999, pp. 344-361. [Japanese/ Abstract in German]