Posted by vrcvanderbilt on Thursday, February 22, 2018 in HART, News, VRC.

The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery of Art has named Elizabeth Moodey, associate professor of the history of art, a Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow for the months of March and April 2018. During that time Moodey will be in residence working on a book on grisaille primarily in the northern territories of the dukes of Burgundy, entitled Conspicuous Abstention: Grisaille in the Art of the Burgundian Netherlands.

Moodey has frequently written and lectured on grisaille—painting in shades of gray—with her most recent essay, “Grisaille, 1450-1550,” appearing in COLOUR: the Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts (exhibition catalogue), July-December 2016, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. In March of last year she delivered a lecture on color in dress, called “’Ledit duc, ledit jour’: Color Choices at the Burgundian Court,” for the Sackler Research Forum Renaissance series at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London.

One of thirteen Visiting Senior Fellows (2017-2018), Moodey will have access to the notable resources represented by the art collections, the library, and the image collections of the National Gallery of Art, as well as to the Library of Congress and other specialized research libraries and collections in the Washington area. Lectures, colloquia, shop talks, and other scholarly gatherings complement the fellowship program.

*Rogier van der Weyden. Beaune Altarpiece, detail from exterior (wings of altarpiece closed): Saint Anthony (painted in grisaille) and the wife of the patron Nicolas Rolin, Chancellor, oil on oak panels,1443-1451, Musée de l’Hôtel Dieu, Beaune.