Associate Professor of Art History
Education
Education
- Ph.D., University of Virginia
- M.A., University of Virginia
- B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Teaching Specialties
- Medieval and Renaissance Art
- Global Art History
Research Interests
- Late medieval and early modern Parisian art
- Ivory carving and the work of tabletier
- Archival documents, particularly estate inventories
- Games and toys made in 16th century Paris
- Printed Books of Hours
Links of Interests:
A Merchant of Ivory in 16th-Century Paris: The Estate Inventory of Chicart Bailly. Leiden: Brill, 2023
https://brill.com/display/title/64034?language=en
“Parisian Painters and their Missing Oeuvres: Evidence from the Archives,” in Lost Artefacts from Medieval England and France: Representation, Reimagination, Recovery. York Medieval Press series. York: Boydell & Brewer, York Medieval Press, 2022
https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781914049057/lost-artefacts-from-medieval-england-and-france/
“Un jeu Gentil : la fabrication des damiers à Paris au XVIe siècle.” Documents d'histoire
parisienne 23 (2021): 5-11.
https://www.saprat.fr/documents-d-histoire-parisienne-20.htm
Baker, Katherine. “Chicart Bailly and the Specter of Death: Memento Mori in a Sixteenth-Century Estate
Inventory.” In The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe, edited by Stephen Perkinson.
Brunswick: Bowdoin College Museum of Art (distributed by Yale University Press), 2017.
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300225952/ivory-mirror
Baker, Katherine. “‘La Chambre aux dentz d’yvoire’: An Introduction to the Inventory of Chicart Bailly.” In Gothic
Ivory Sculpture: Content and Context, edited by Catherine Yvard, 68-75. London: The Courtauld Institute of Art,
2017.
https://courtauld.ac.uk/research/courtauld-books-online/gothic-ivory-sculpture
Biography
Katherine Baker received her Ph.D. in art history at the University of Virginia in 2013. A research fellow at Institut national d'histoire de l'art, first through a Kress Institutional Fellowship and later as a chercheure accueilli, she completed a dissertation on collaborative making in Paris around 1500 while in residence. With a particular interest in what the archival record can tell us about lost artistic production, her current project examines the estate inventory of Chicart Bailly, a Parisian tabletier from the early 16th century. An examination of the document and complete transcription-translation can be found in her book, A Merchant of Ivory in 16th-Century Paris: The Estate Inventory of Chicart Bailly (2023).
