Meredith Lillich
American art historian (born 1932)
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Meredith Parsons Lillich (born February 9, 1932) is an American art historian. She specializes in medieval stained glass, and has written several books on the topic, including The Stained Glass of Saint-Père de Chartres (1978), Rainbow Like an Emerald (1991), and The Gothic Stained Glass of Reims Cathedral (2011). She is Emeritus Professor of Art History at Syracuse University[1] and is a 2007 Guggenheim Fellow.
Meredith Lillich | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 9, 1932 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Occupation | Art historian |
| Spouse | Richard B. Lillich |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2007) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | The Stained Glass of Saint-Père de Chartres (1969) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Art historian |
| Sub-discipline | Medieval stained glass |
| Institutions | Syracuse University |
Biography
Lillich was born on February 9, 1932, in Chicago,[2] daughter of Allan D. Parsons.[3] She obtained a BA from Oberlin College in 1953, and after studying art history as a 1953-1954 Fulbright Fellow at the Free University of Brussels,[3] an MA from Cornell University in 1957.[2] She later obtained a PhD from Columbia University in 1969;[2] her doctoral dissertation was titled The Stained Glass of Saint-Père de Chartres.[4]
In 1968, Lillich became an instructor at Syracuse University.[2] She was promoted to assistant professor in 1969, associate professor in 1973, and full professor in 1981.[2] She was director of the 1980 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Seminar for College Teachers.[2] She was also a 1976 NEH Fellow in Paris, a 1980-1981 American Council of Learned Societies Fellow, a 1981 and 1987-1988 Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts Visiting Senior Fellow, a 1983 Fulbright Senior Research Fellow in Paris, and a 1988 Institute for Advanced Study Fellow.[2] She was awarded Syracuse University's 1987 William Wasserstrom Prize for Outstanding Graduate Teaching.[5]
Lillich specializes in medieval stained glass.[6] Books she authored include The Stained Glass of Saint-Père de Chartres (1978) - which won a Millard Meiss Publication Fund grant[7] - Rainbow Like an Emerald: Stained Glass in Lorraine in the Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries (1991), The Armor of Light: Stained Glass in Western France, 1250-1325 (1994) and Stained Glass Before 1700 in Upstate New York (2004).[8][6] In 2007, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study the stained glass of Reims Cathedral;[6] this allowed her to write her next book The Gothic Stained Glass of Reims Cathedral (2007).[9]
She married legal scholar Richard B. Lillich.[6][3] As of 2003, she lived in Syracuse, New York.[8]
Works
- A Redating of the Thirteenth-Century Grisaille Windows of Chartres Cathedral (1972)[8]
- The Stained Glass of Saint-Père de Chartres (1978)[a]
- (as editor) Studies in Cistercian Art and Architecture, I and II (1982 and 1984)[13]
- Rainbow Like an Emerald: Stained Glass in Lorraine in the Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries (1991)[b]
- The Armor of Light: Stained Glass in Western France, 1250-1325 (1994)[16]
- The Queen of Sicily and Gothic Stained Glass in Mussy and Tonnerre (1998)[17]
- (as editor) Cistercian Nuns and Their World (2005)[18]
- The Gothic Stained Glass of Reims Cathedral (2011)[c]