Meredith Lillich

Meredith Lillich
Born (1932-02-09) February 9, 1932
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
OccupationArt historian
SpouseRichard B. Lillich
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (2007)
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisThe Stained Glass of Saint-Père de Chartres (1969)
Academic work
DisciplineArt historian
Sub-disciplineMedieval stained glass
InstitutionsSyracuse University

Meredith Parsons Lillich (born February 9, 1932) is an American art historian. She specializes in medieval stained glass, and has written several books on the topic, including The Stained Glass of Saint-Père de Chartres (1978), Rainbow Like an Emerald (1991), and The Gothic Stained Glass of Reims Cathedral (2011). She is Emeritus Professor of Art History at Syracuse University[1] and is a 2007 Guggenheim Fellow.

Biography

Lillich was born on February 9, 1932, in Chicago,[2] daughter of Allan D. Parsons.[3] She obtained a BA from Oberlin College in 1953, and after studying art history as a 1953-1954 Fulbright Fellow at the Free University of Brussels,[3] an MA from Cornell University in 1957.[2] She later obtained a PhD from Columbia University in 1969;[2] her doctoral dissertation was titled The Stained Glass of Saint-Père de Chartres.[4]

In 1968, Lillich became an instructor at Syracuse University.[2] She was promoted to assistant professor in 1969, associate professor in 1973, and full professor in 1981.[2] She was director of the 1980 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Seminar for College Teachers.[2] She was also a 1976 NEH Fellow in Paris, a 1980-1981 American Council of Learned Societies Fellow, a 1981 and 1987-1988 Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts Visiting Senior Fellow, a 1983 Fulbright Senior Research Fellow in Paris, and a 1988 Institute for Advanced Study Fellow.[2] She was awarded Syracuse University's 1987 William Wasserstrom Prize for Outstanding Graduate Teaching.[5]

Lillich specializes in medieval stained glass.[6] Books she authored include The Stained Glass of Saint-Père de Chartres (1978) - which won a Millard Meiss Publication Fund grant[7] - Rainbow Like an Emerald: Stained Glass in Lorraine in the Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries (1991), The Armor of Light: Stained Glass in Western France, 1250-1325 (1994) and Stained Glass Before 1700 in Upstate New York (2004).[8][6] In 2007, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study the stained glass of Reims Cathedral;[6] this allowed her to write her next book The Gothic Stained Glass of Reims Cathedral (2007).[9]

She married legal scholar Richard B. Lillich.[6][3] As of 2003, she lived in Syracuse, New York.[8]

Works

  • A Redating of the Thirteenth-Century Grisaille Windows of Chartres Cathedral (1972)[8]
  • The Stained Glass of Saint-Père de Chartres (1978)[a]
  • (as editor) Studies in Cistercian Art and Architecture, I and II (1982 and 1984)[13]
  • Rainbow Like an Emerald: Stained Glass in Lorraine in the Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries (1991)[b]
  • The Armor of Light: Stained Glass in Western France, 1250-1325 (1994)[16]
  • The Queen of Sicily and Gothic Stained Glass in Mussy and Tonnerre (1998)[17]
  • (as editor) Cistercian Nuns and Their World (2005)[18]
  • The Gothic Stained Glass of Reims Cathedral (2011)[c]

Notes

  1. ^ Reviews of this book: [10][11][12]
  2. ^ Reviews of this book: [14][15]
  3. ^ Reviews of this book: [19][20]

References

  1. ^ "Meredith Lillich". College of Arts & Sciences at Syracuse University. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Reports of the President and the Treasurer. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2008. p. 99.
  3. ^ a b c "Parsons-Lillich". Chicago Tribune. September 8, 1953. p. 33.
  4. ^ Lillich, Meredith Parsons (1969). The Stained Glass of Saint-Père de Chartres (PhD thesis). Columbia University. OCLC 81074789.
  5. ^ "William Wasserstrom Prize". College of Arts & Sciences at Syracuse University. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  6. ^ a b c d "Meredith Parsons Lillich". Guggenheim Fellowships. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  7. ^ "Publication Grants | Programs". College Art Association. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  8. ^ a b c "Meredith Parsons Lillich." Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors, Gale, 2003. Gale In Context: Biography, link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1000060108/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=aaeae685. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
  9. ^ "The Gothic Stained Glass of Reims Cathedral By Meredith Parsons Lillich". Penn State University Press. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  10. ^ Cothren, Michael (1979). "Review of The Stained Glass of Saint-Père de Chartres". Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 38 (3): 281–282. doi:10.2307/989394. ISSN 0037-9808. JSTOR 989394.
  11. ^ Pfaff, Richard W. (1979). "Review of The Stained Glass of Saint-Père de Chartres". Church History. 48 (3): 338–339. doi:10.2307/3163991. ISSN 0009-6407. JSTOR 3163991.
  12. ^ Raguin, Virginia Chieffo (1980). "Review of The Stained Glass of Saint-Père de Chartres". Speculum. 55 (1): 142–143. doi:10.2307/2855745. ISSN 0038-7134. JSTOR 2855745.
  13. ^ Gillerman, David M. (1986). "Review of Studies in Cistercian Art and Architecture, I and II". Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 45 (4): 410–411. doi:10.2307/990212. ISSN 0037-9808. JSTOR 990212.
  14. ^ Caviness, Madeline H. (1993). "Review of Rainbow Like and Emerald: Stained Glass in Lorraine in the Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries". Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 52 (2): 232–233. doi:10.2307/990793. ISSN 0037-9808. JSTOR 990793.
  15. ^ Pastan, Elizabeth (1994). "Review of Rainbow Like an Emerald: Stained Glass in Lorraine in the Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries". Speculum. 69 (1): 203–204. doi:10.2307/2864844. ISSN 0038-7134. JSTOR 2864844.
  16. ^ Ayers, Tim (1995). "Review of The Armor of Light, Stained Glass in Western France, 1250-1325. (California Studies in the History of Art, XXIII)". The Burlington Magazine. 137 (1110): 620–620. ISSN 0007-6287. JSTOR 886659.
  17. ^ Harris, Anne F. (2002). "Review of The Queen of Sicily and Gothic Stained Glass in Mussy and Tonnerre". Speculum. 77 (1): 215–216. doi:10.2307/2903847. ISSN 0038-7134. JSTOR 2903847.
  18. ^ Nichols, John A. (2007). "Review of Cistercian Nuns and Their World". The Catholic Historical Review. 93 (1): 143–144. ISSN 0008-8080. JSTOR 25166777.
  19. ^ Brown, Sarah (2014). "Review of The Gothic Stained Glass of Reims Cathedral". Studies in Iconography. 35: 252–255. ISSN 0148-1029. JSTOR 23924799.
  20. ^ Sadler, Donna (2013). "Review of The Gothic Stained Glass of Reims Cathedral". Speculum. 88 (2): 547–548. ISSN 0038-7134. JSTOR 23488889.
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