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5/13/02

DOROTHY LIMOUZE APPOINTED TO BIRDSONG CHAIR AT SLU

CANTON - Dorothy Limouze has been appointed to the Birdsong Chair 
in the Arts, a newly established distinction, at St. Lawrence 
University. 
	An associate professor of fine arts, Limouze has been on 
the faculty at St. Lawrence since 1991. She is a graduate of Goucher 
College, with an M.F.A. and the Ph.D. from Princeton University. 
In 1997, Limouze was awarded a fellowship from the Metropolitan Museum 
of Art in New York City. In the same year, she helped to coordinate an 
international exhibition in Prague, Czech Republic, on the art 
patronage of Emperor Rudolf II. Her doctoral thesis was on the art of 
Aegidius Sadeler, a Flemish engraver who worked for the Habsburg 
emperor in Prague, and she has published a number of articles on his 
work, as well as more broadly on northern and central European 
Renaissance and Baroque art.
	Limouze, an art historian, also gave a presentation at this 
year's Festival of the Arts at the University, on "Hidden Goddesses 
in European Art."
	The Birdsong Chair in the Arts was established in 2001 with 
a generous gift of $1,500,000 from Lynn '68 and Terry '69 Birdsong, 
of Greenwich, Connecticut, to honor and support an outstanding 
faculty member in the arts. Limouze is the first faculty member to 
hold the appointment. The Birdsongs also established, in 2000, 
the Birdsong Fund for Visiting Music Faculty, which brings to campus 
visiting musicians or musical groups to enhance music education.

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