Elizabeth Sears
Elizabeth Langsford Sears is Professor Emerita, George H. Forsyth Jr. Collegiate History of Art at the University of Michigan. She is known for the study of European medieval art and the historiography of art.
Education
Sears attended Duke University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1974. She earned her master's degree and Ph.D. from Yale University in 1982, writing on "the ages of man" under professor Walter Cahn.Career
Sears is the Professor Emerita, George H. Forsyth Jr. Collegiate History of Art at University of Michigan. She also taught at the Universität Hamburg and Princeton University.Selected books
Verzetteln als Methode: Der humanistische Ikonologe William S. Heckscher, co-authored with Charlotte Schoell-Glass, Hamburger Forschungen zur Kunstgeschichte, Akademie Verlag.- With Edgar Wind, The Religious Symbolism of Michelangelo: The Sistine Ceiling, editor, Oxford University Press.The Ages of Man: Medieval Interpretations of the Life Cycle, Princeton University Press.