Dr. Nora M. Heimann

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  Nora M. Heimann and Laura Coyle
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  Leading art historian, Nora Heimann, explores the history of Joan's image in France from the 15th century to 1920.Heimann demonstrates that where Joan's image appears— from public monuments to bottles of perfume—it is nearly always tied to the most timely political events and debates often revolving around the fluctuating relationship between Church and State.
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  Nora M. Heimann is associate professor, Department of Art at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and guest curator, European Paintings at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

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  Curators Nora Heimann and Laura Coyle have been living with Joan for a couple of years now, first as curators for the exhibit at the Corcoran Museum in Washington, D.C., then as guest curators for this exhibit, which is an expanded version of the first, both in space and items , more than 200.
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  Some of the most striking images are the beautiful watercolor paintings by French artist Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel, which, Heimann writes in the catalog, illustrated his biography, "Jeanne d'Arc," , "one of the most enduringly popular biographies of Joan of Arc's life ever written."
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  "He was a very innovative illustrator," Heimann says."...He has a wonderful sense of graphic patterning that is really exquisite.He paid a lot of attention to details all the time," she notes of both the book illustrations and the 38 watercolors and six oils of his muse, at various moments in her short life.
  
  One such milestone came at 16 when she cuts off her hair and dons armor to become a soldier, after which, Heimann says, "she never wore women's clothes again."That fact often gets misrepresented in the renderings of the many artists who painted her, some preferring to depict her as a romantic mythical image with long tresses and a sometimes womanly figure, as shown in the exhibit.
  
  Other than her hair and clothes, no one really knew what she looked like, so her images are like the depictions of Jesus Christ , from artist's imaginations.
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  Of particular note is the Voltaire epic collection of poems, "La Purcelle," which, upon translation, says Heimann, "is pornographic and incendiary.
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  "Think Princess Diana, but more," says Heimann.

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  Advance Exhibition Schedule / Corcoran Gallery of Art - [Cached Version]
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  Curators: Laura Coyle, Curator of European Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art and Nora Heimann, Assistant Professor of Art History, The Catholic University of America

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  Curator Laura Coyle and Nora M. Heimann
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  Laura Coyle and Nora M. Heimann
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  Nora M. Heimann is an associate professor of art history and the Chair of the Art Department at The Catholic University of America.

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  The exhibit's co-curators are art historian Laura Coyle and Nora Heimann, an associate professor of art history and head of the Art Department at The Catholic University of America.

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  Teen Angel - washingtonpost.com - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/27/2006    Last Visited: 11/28/2006  

  Its curators, Nora M. Heimann of the Catholic University of America and Laura Coyle, formerly of the Corcoran, wrote the accompanying book "Joan of Arc: Her Image in France and America."
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  "Patently pornographic" is how the exhibition's two curators -- Nora M. Heimann, who chairs the art department at Catholic University, and Laura Coyle, a former Corcoran curator -- describe the illustrations for Voltaire's "The Maid of Orleans," which they're too discreet to show.

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  The Catholic Standard - News - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/7/2006    Last Visited: 1/7/2007  

  The Corcoran exhibition, featuring more than 200 works, was put together by two women, Nora M. Heimann, associate professor of art history at the Catholic University of America, and Laura Coyle, art historian and independent curator, formerly at the Corcoran.
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  Heimann, a passionate fan of Joan of Arc who wrote a doctoral dissertation on her, pointed out that even skinhead followers of Jean Marie Le Pen, the French leader of the far-right National Front, co-opted her for their purposes in a 1990 parade.
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  "What they were talking about was really scary," said Heimann who witnessed the skinhead demonstration first-hand.
  
  On the other hand French royalists celebrated Joan's chastity, courage and spirituality.And there is a great statue of her in Paris in the Place Jeanne d'Arc.
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  Because of the material that built up around her over the centuries, the sponsors of Joan's cause for sainthood had a difficult time pulling it together, pointed out Heimann.

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  ANTIQUITIES TO IMPRESSIONISM: THE WILLIAM A. CLARK COLLECTION, gallery talk by Catholic University of America assistant professor of art history Nora M. Heimann.Corcoran Gallery of Art, 500 17th St. NW.Saturday at 2:30 p.m. $5 (includes admission to the Corcoran Gallery of Art). (202) 639-1770.
  
  ART AT HOME: THE STORY OF THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION, gallery talk by a Phillips Collection staff member.Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW.Thursday at 6 & 7 p.m. $5 (includes admission to the Phillips Collection). (202) 387-2151.

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  These works inspired the curators of the exhibition, Laura Coyle, art historian and independent curator, and Nora M. Heimann, Associate Professor of Art History at The Catholic University, to investigate the complex historical, social and artistic contexts for a range of Joan of Arc representations, including images in manuscripts, early printed books, painting, sculpture, prints and textiles.

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  Nora M. Heimann and Laura Coyle
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  Leading art historian, Nora Heimann, explores the history of Joan's image in France from the 15th century to 1920

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