Stephanie Wisowaty

Stephanie Wisowaty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in the History of Art Department, specializing in medieval art with a particular focus on Italy. Her dissertation explores the materiality and mobility of double-sided painted processional crosses in thirteenth and fourteenth-century Italy. The project investigates how such objects invited a multisensorial and imaginative devotional process, and how they participated in and contributed to the artistic innovations and identity-building practices of burgeoning religious communities in late medieval central Italy.

Stephanie holds a BA in French and German Literature from Yale University (2016) and an MA with Distinction in the History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art supervised by Prof. Joanna Cannon (2017). In 2016 she curated an exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery entitled “Le Goût du Prince: Art and Prestige in Sixteenth Century France.” She has also held curatorial internships at the Bargello (Florence) and the Museum der Angewandten Kunst (Vienna). As of March 2022 Stephanie is a two-year Predoctoral Fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Dr. Tanja Michalsky’s department “Cities and Spaces in Premodernity.”