Lieve Watteeuw
Lieve Watteeuw (Bruges, 1959) is a Belgian art historian and conservator-restorer of manuscripts, early prints and drawings. She is known for her research into medieval illuminated manuscripts and miniatures. She is a professor at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) and is the head of the Book Heritage Lab [1] under the university’s Faculty of Theology and religious sciences.
Career
Watteeuw studied art conservation and restoration at the HICOREB (Higher Institute for the Conservation and Restoration of Books, Gent), and History of Art at KU Leuven. In 2008 she attained her PhD with a dissertation on the History of the Restoration of Medieval Manuscripts in Belgium.
Watteeuw has studied and applied her conservation expertise to a number of renowned medieval manuscripts and books. These include the ‘Codex Eyckensis’ (Church Treasury Maaseik), the ‘Chroniques de Hainaut’ (KBR), the ‘Breviarium Mayer van den Bergh’ (Antwerp) and ‘The Bible of Anjou’(KU Leuven)[2]. She has led and coordinated several major research projects relating to the conservation of medieval art and artefacts, including the unique[vague] ‘Enclosed Gardens’ at the Hof van Busleyden (Mechelen), the Charters of the Old University of Leuven (KU Leuven), and the medieval manuscripts of the Abbey Ten Duinen (Mayor Seminary, Bruges).
She curated various exhibitions, including ‘The Bible of Anjou. A Royal Manuscript Revealed’ (2009, Museum M, Leuven), ‘Books under Fire’ (Universiteitsbibliotheek, Leuven, 2015), and ‘Magnificent Middle Ages’ (Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp, 2013) together with Catherine Reynolds. In 2018 she collaborated with the Berlinde de Bruyckere on the exhibition ‘It almost seems a Lily’ in the Hof van Busleyden, Mechelen. In 2004 Lieve Watteeuw received the Flemish award for Cultural Heritage[3] from the Government of the Flemish Community.
In 2016 she founded the Book Heritage Lab at KU Leuven, a centre of expertise dedicated to advanced studies on the material history of medieval and early modern books, with a special focus on book archaeology, production, preservation, including through innovative scientific imaging technologies.
Selected bibliography
- The Anjou Bible. A Royal Manuscript Revealed. Naples 1340 (2010).
- Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp (2013).
- Enclosed Gardens of Mechelen. Late Medieval Paradise Gardens revealed. Amsterdam (2018).
- Full list of publications: http://lirias.kuleuven.be/cv?Username=U0053977
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