Barbara Baert is Professor in Medieval Art, Iconology and Historiography at the KU Leuven. Her work links knowledge and questions from the history of ideas, cultural anthropology and philosophy, and is deeply sensitive to cultural archetypes and their symptoms in the visual arts. Baert is the recipient of several international fellowships and awards, including the prestigious Belgian Francqui Prize for Human Sciences in 2016.

Barbara Baert is Professor in Medieval Art, Iconology and Historiography at the KU Leuven. Her work links knowledge and questions from the history of ideas, cultural anthropology and philosophy, and is deeply sensitive to cultural archetypes and their symptoms in the visual arts. Baert is the recipient of several international fellowships and awards, including the prestigious Belgian Francqui Prize for Human Sciences in 2016.

Barbara Baert is Professor in Medieval Art, Iconology and Historiography at the KU Leuven. Her work links knowledge and questions from the history of ideas, cultural anthropology and philosophy, and is deeply sensitive to cultural archetypes and their symptoms in the visual arts. Baert is the recipient of several international fellowships and awards, including the prestigious Belgian Francqui Prize for Human Sciences in 2016.