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Marisa Michaud

Par le moyen et avis de soeur Colette: Piety, Patronage, and the Relationship between the Colettine Poor Clares and the Valois Court of Burgundy.

My research examines the visual culture within the Colettine Poor Clare monasteries of the fifteenth-century, particularly those founded during the life of mystic and Franciscan reformer St. Colette Boylet of Corbie (1381 – 1447). By uniting artworks that belonged to these institutions for the first time, my work aims to create a new understanding of patronage and piety within the Valois Burgundian Court, particularly during the rules of John the Fearless and Philip the Good. Before her death in Ghent, St. Colette founded at least seventeen monasteries, more than half of which were in Burgundian territories and funded by Burgundian nobility. Her close relationship with the Valois Burgundian Court influenced modes of prayer and devotion for successive Dukes and Duchesses, and their contribution to her cult are particularly tangible through visual media.

Biography

Marisa completed a BA in the History of Art at Suffolk University, Boston in 2016. She then went on to complete a Masters in the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, with a specialisation in the Art of Northern Europe between 1380 – 1520 and a focus on technical art historical methodologies. After this, she worked in the commercial art industry for a few years, managing the gallery of a leading antique poster dealer in Boston and curating several successful exhibitions for the gallery (most notably, The Machine Age Style: Art Deco Poster Masterpieces 1925 - 1939).

Marisa is excited to be a part of the CMS community. Her research is co-supervised by Dr Jeanne Nuechterlein and Professor Craig Taylor. Her interests include late medieval monastic culture (especially within Franciscanism), mysticism, living saints, Netherlandish panel painting & manuscript illumination, and anything related to the Valois Dukes and Duchesses of Burgundy. She is passionate about accessibility in museums and academia and always seeks to foster welcoming spaces.