Meredith Parsons Lillich

Meredith Parsons Lillich (February 9, 1932 – March 18, 2026) was an American art historian. She specialized in medieval stained glass, and wrote several books on the topic, including The Stained Glass of Saint-Père de Chartres, Rainbow Like an Emerald (1991), and The Gothic Stained Glass of Reims Cathedral (2011). Lillich was a 2007 Guggenheim Fellow and was an Emeritus Professor of Art History at Syracuse University.

Life and career Lillich was born in Chicago, Illinois,

In 1968, Lillich became an instructor at Syracuse University. . She was promoted to assistant professor in 1969, associate professor in 1973, and full professor in 1981.

She specialized in medieval stained glass. - 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). In 2007, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study the stained glass of Reims Cathedral;

In 1953, she married legal scholar Richard B. Lillich.

Lillich died at her home in Syracuse, New York, on March 18, 2026, at the age of 94.

Works A Redating of the Thirteenth-Century Grisaille Windows of Chartres Cathedral (1972) (as editor) Studies in Cistercian Art and Architecture, I and II (1982 and 1984) 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) The Queen of Sicily and Gothic Stained Glass in Mussy and Tonnerre (1998) (as editor) Cistercian Nuns and Their World (2005) The Gothic Stained Glass of Reims Cathedral (2011)