On November 11, Ben Allsopp successfully defended his PhD dissertation, “Contact Points: Passion Relics and Painting in Venice c. 1470-1530.” Later that month, Ben visited the J. Paul Getty Museum in LA, where he gave a tour of the exhibition he co-curated while an intern there, “Going Places: Travel in the Middle Ages.” Ben has just completed his curatorial internship with the Baltimore Museum of Art, where he was working in the Department of Prints, Drawings & Photographs. 

Lauren Maceross successfully defended her PhD dissertation, “The “Pulchritudo Rationis” of Human Organs: On a Physiological Poetics of Late Medieval Containers” on December 8. Lauren is currently the Zanvyl Krieger Curatorial Fellow of Rare Books and Manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum and will be presenting on a new exhibit, Creating Medieval Mindscapes, on April 8 at the Walters Art Museum.

image: Sir John Mandeville. Picture Book of Sir John Mandeville’s Travels. ca. 1410. https://jstor.org/stable/community.10624337