Samantha Leanne Smith
Position
Assistant Professor
Affiliation
Research groups
- Research Group Images of Knowledge
- EUROPEAN NETWORK ON THE INSTRUMENTS OF DEVOTION
- Images of Knowledge
Short info
Current projects include the relationship between art and relics, the theme of the imprint in art from antiquity to contemporary art and art's history in the work of Bente Sætrang.
Research
Art and visual culture in early modern Europe
Art theory.
Blindness as a metaphor
Early modern antiquarianism and the origins of modern archaeology and history.
Early history of the botanical garden.
Images as a universal language.
Image science
Labels and labelling of museum and art objects.
Origins of the museum.
Reformation.
Relics.
Representations of blindness in art and literature.
Scientific illustration
Visual Culture
Veneration of images
Outreach
2024
December, 2024: 'Christmas through the eyes of artists' Guest lecture for Senioruniversitetet, kvam. Kabuso, Øystese.
2023
March, 2023: 'Harriet Backer' Artist biography for AWARE webpage on women artists and curators. https://awarewomenartists.com/en/artiste/harriet-backer/
March. 2023: Art historical society's annual meeting 2023, Oslo : PhD evening. Project presentation: 'Translating the Image'.
2019
Nov. 2019: Den Store Norske Leksikon : bidrag om 'Likkledet i Torino'.
3. oktober 2019: Forelesning for Estetiske lesesirkel ved UiB, 'Index of an Absent Wound' - A seminar on Georges Didi-Huberman's theories on visuality.
2018
September, 2018: The Norwegian Insitute in Rome, Rome: 'The Shroud and the Pineapple: The use of images in sixteenth-century Bologna'
2017
4th October, 2017: Guest Lecture at the University of Oslo: 'Defining an Image and Creating a cultural- historical lens: Paleotti and W. J. T Mitchell'
Teaching
I have taught on a number of Art History courses at UiB including:
- KUN 105 - Art and Culture in Antiquity, Byzantium, and the Early Middle Ages
- KUN 106 - Art, Architecture and Visual Culture 1750-1950
- KUN 107 - Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Art and Culture
- KUN 108 - Art, Architecture and Visual Culture 1950-today
- KUN 201 - Art Theory, Aesthetics and Historiography. (Course responsible)
- KUN 209 - Art, Rhetoric and Traditions of Learning in the Pre- and Early Modern Period.
- KUN 321 - Research Mediation: Art History in Society Community (Course responsible)
Publications
2022
- Ryan, Salvador; Smith, Samantha Leanne; Skinnebach, Laura Katrine (2022). Material Cultures of Devotion in the Age of Reformations. (external link)
- Ryan, Salvador; Smith, Samantha Leanne; Skinnebach, Laura Katrine (2022). Introduction. (external link)
- Smith, Samantha Leanne (2022). Chastising the Eye in the 'Golden Age'. The Image of Blind Tobit in Seventeenth-Century Netherlands. (external link)
2016
- Smith, Samantha L. (2016). On Hands That Make Us See: "Tobias Healing His Father’s Blindness". (external link)
- Vaage, Nora Sørensen; Slaattelid, Rasmus Tore; Haagensen, Trine Krigsvoll et al. (2016). Images of Knowledge: The Epistemic Lives of Pictures and Visualisations. (external link)
- Vaage, Nora Sørensen; Slaattelid, Rasmus Tore; Haagensen, Trine Krigsvoll et al. (2016). Images of Knowledge. (external link)
2015
See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.
Publications
Material Cultures of Devotion in the Age of the Reformations. Co-edited with L. K. Skinnebach and S. Ryan.
'Chastising the Eye in the 'Golden Age'. The image of blind Tobit in seventeenth-century Netherlands.' In Material Cultures of Devotion in the Age of the Reformations. Eds. L. K. Skinnebach, S. Ryan and S. L. Smith (Peeters, 2021).
Encyclopaedia Contributions
'Likkleddet i Torino' Store Norske Leksikon. (2019)
Master's Thesis
‘Painting Blindness and Obscuring Vision: Rembrandt and the senses’. 2014, (MA Thesis)