Elizabeth Savage (historian) explained

Elizabeth Savage
Occupation:Art Historian
Education:University Professors Program, Boston University (BA)Courtauld Institute of Art (MA)University of Cambridge (PhD)
Discipline:Art history, bibliography, printing
Workplaces:School of Advanced Study, Cambridge University
Nationality:American, British, German
Doctoral Advisor:Jean Michel Massing
Academic Advisors:Joseph Koerner

Lauren Elizabeth Savage () FSA, FRHistS is a British, American and German art historian, bibliographer, curator, and printer specialising in western late medieval and early modern printing practices. She is a leading authority on how information was printed 1400–1600, especially in Europe and especially in colour.

As of 2024, she serves at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, as Senior Lecturer in Book History and Communications, Head of Academic Research Engagement at Senate House Library, and module leader for the London Rare Books School.

Education

A National Merit Scholar, Savage took a BA in Art History and Literature from the University Professors Program, Boston University, where she studied with Saul Bellow, Geoffrey Hill and Rosanna Warren, in 2003.[1] Following a certificate in French Language and Culture from the Sorbonne, she took an MA in History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, supervised by Joseph Koerner, in 2005. After working at the Warburg Institute, she took a PhD at King’s College, Cambridge, supervised by Jean Michel Massing, in 2013.[2]

Career

While completing her PhD, Savage was a keyholder to the rare book vaults at Cambridge University Library as Munby Fellow in Bibliography.[3] As a postdoc, her work at the John Rylands Research Institute, University of Manchester, was highlighted in Nature,[4] and she then held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, Faculty of English, Cambridge University with a Postdoctoral By-fellowship, Churchill College, Cambridge.[5]

In 2016, she joined the School of Advanced Study, University of London, the “UK’s national centre for the promotion and facilitation of research in the humanities.” She is currently Senior Lecturer in Book History and Communications, Head of Academic Research Engagement at Senate House Library, and module leader for the London Rare Books School. She had held honorary affiliations at the Warburg Institute (2013–2014); History of Art, Cambridge University (2013–2018); and Centre for the Study of the Book, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University (2020–present).

Savage co-founded and directed the Printing Colour Project (2009–2018), which supported £600,000 in grant income and blockbuster exhibitions that engaged 350,000 members of the public in the history of colour printing in the west.[6] For the Printing Historical Society, she serves on the Grants & Prizes (2016–present) and Publications Committees (2017-present). For the Association of Print Scholars, she was a founding jury member of the Grants Program (2017–2019) and serves on the Grants Committee (2023–2024).

Awards and prizes

Her research awards include the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (2015) and British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award (2017).[7]  She was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and the Royal Historical Society in 2019.

Notable awards and prizes for her publications include:

Exhibitions

Savage collaborates with library and museum collections. She has curated exhibitions at Cambridge University Library (2013) and the British Museum (2015).[15] She has contributed to others, including at Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf (2017), Groeningemuseum (2018), the Louvre (2019),[16] and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (2019).

Public talks

As of September 2023, Savage has delivered about 80 invited talks, public lectures, and keynotes in a dozen countries, including:

References

  1. Web site: Dr Elizabeth Savage University of London . 2024-03-19 . research.london.ac.uk . en.
  2. Savage, Elizabeth, and University of Cambridge. Department of History of Art, degree granting institution. Printing colour in the age of Durer 'Chiaroscuro' woodcuts of the German-speaking lands, 1487-ca. 1600 (2013): n. pag. Print.
  3. Web site: Parmenter . E. . 2023-09-21 . Past Munby Fellows . 2024-03-19 . www.lib.cam.ac.uk . en.
  4. Pormann . Peter E. . September 2015 . Interdisciplinarity: Inside Manchester's 'arts lab' . Nature . en . 525 . 7569 . 318–319 . 10.1038/525318a . 26381971 . 2015Natur.525..318P . 0028-0836. free .
  5. Web site: Grove . M. L. R. . 2016-06-09 . The Department would like to congratulate Dr Elizabeth Savage (née Upper) who has been awarded the Wolfgang Ratjen Award for distinguished research in the field of graphic arts . 2024-02-06 . www.hoart.cam.ac.uk . en.
  6. Web site: The Printing Colour Project – Writing Colour into the History of Printing in the West, 1400–1920 . 2024-02-06 . en-GB.
  7. Web site: BA Rising Star Engagement Awards 2017 . 2024-03-19 . The British Academy . en.
  8. Web site: Past Annual Meetings . 2024-02-06 . The Bibliographical Society of America . en.
  9. Upper . Elizabeth . December 2014 . Red Frisket Sheets, ca. 1490–1700: The Earliest Artifacts of Color Printing in the West . The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America . en . 108 . 4 . 477–522 . 10.1086/681568 . 0006-128X . 191714610.
  10. Web site: Siegel . Jane Rodgers . 2014-01-28 . L. Elizabeth Upper Awarded the 2014 Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship . 2024-02-06 . American Printing History Association.
  11. Web site: Wolfgang-Ratjen-Preis — Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte . 2024-03-19 . www.zikg.eu.
  12. Web site: Grove . M. L. R. . 2016-11-10 . Printing Colour 1400-1700, edited by Ad Stijnman and Elizabeth Savage, has been cited for an honourable mention in the 2016 International Fine Print Dealers (IFPDA) Book Award . 2024-02-06 . www.hoart.cam.ac.uk . en.
  13. Web site: 2020 Schulman and Bullard Article Prize Awarded to Elizabeth Savage : Association of Print Scholars . 2024-02-06 . printscholars.org.
  14. Web site: October 2019, #1399 – Vol 161 − The Burlington Magazine . 2024-02-06 . www.burlington.org.uk.
  15. Web site: Earliest attempts at colour printing in the West on display for the first time . 2024-02-06 . The British Academy . en.
  16. Séverine Lepape/Elizabeth Savage, ‘Hans Burgkmair, L’Emperor Maximilian à cheval’, in Gravure en clair-obscur. Cranach, Raphaël, Rubens, ed. Séverine Lepape (Paris: Musée du Louvre/Liénart, 2018), 36–39; Séverine Lepape/Elizabeth Savage, ‘Hans Burgkmair, Couple d’amants surprise par la Mort’, in Gravure en clair-obscur. Cranach, Raphaël, Rubens, ed. Séverine Lepape (Paris: Musée du Louvre/Liénart, 2018), 44–45.
  17. SHARP 2022. “Info”. https://sharp2022.nl/info/. Retrieved 2023-09-01.

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