
Laurence Garneau
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Sign in to editResearch areas: Early Renaissance Art and Architecture; Early Modern Art and Architecture; Cosmology, Astrology and Epistemology; Art Matters and Image Agencies; Feminist Theories and Represented Women; Historiography; Italian Painting
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Biography
Biography
Dr. Laurence Garneau (she/her) is a specialist in Early Renaissance Padua, with a particular focus on the political dynamics of the Veneto region and the agency of images. Her research explores astrological frescoes in Italian public buildings from the 14th to the 16th centuries through anthropological, historiographical, feminist, and materialist lenses. Her work has been presented at scholarly conferences across Canada and Europe and has received support from the Fonds de recherche du Québec and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Since 2021, Dr. Garneau has been teaching in the Department of Art History at the Université du Québec à Montréal.
Teaching activities
Courses taught
ARTH 263: Aspects of the History of Print - European Woodcut and Engraving, 1470-1550
ARTH 364: Studies in Renaissance Art and Architecture
ARTH 365: Studies in 17th-18th Century Art and Architecture
ARTH 498: Special Topics in the History of Art and Architecture - Archeoastronomy and Celestial Phenomena
ARTH 300: Methods in Art History
ARTH 362: Studies in Early Christian and Byzantine Art and Architecture
ARTH 391: Art and Its Changing Contexts: Nature, Science and Politics (1000-1800)
Publications
PhD thesis
Garneau, L. (2024). Les pouvoirs politiques du cycle astrologique de Padoue (XIVe-XVe siècles) [Thesis, Université du Québec à Montréal]. Archipel.
Participation activities
Lectures and Residencies
« Une prière des cieux » : La matière picturale du cycle astrologique de Padoue (It.). June 29, 2023, Trento University, Italy. "Arte e scienza. Medialità e materialità" Spring School.
Martyre de la foi conjugale. May 29, 2019, Université du Québec à Montréal. "Thémis en procès : justice et sentiment d’injustice aux XVIe-XVIIIe siècle " Symposium, CIREM.