Brooke Hannah Wrubel

Brooke Wrubel is a PhD candidate specializing in Early Christian, Byzantine, and Western Medieval Art, with a focus on the development of pilgrimage shrines across Italy, Greece, and the Holy Land. She seeks to investigate how encounters with saints and sacred objects are informed by architecture, monumental programs, and portable souvenirs. As a PHI Casa Muraro Summer Research Fellow, Brooke had the opportunity to continue her work on San Marco and its resonances with a select group of medieval glass paste medallions, which she situates within the broader hagiographic landscape of Venice.
Brooke holds a BA in Art History and Italian Studies from Bowdoin College (2021) and an MA in the History of Art from the University of Pennsylvania (2023). Her MA thesis “Intermediality in Duccio’s Maestà: Cosmati Work, Textiles, and Enamels” explores cross-medial dialogues between painted objects and their crafted referents. Her publications include catalogue entries in New Views of the Middle Ages: Highlights from the Wyvern Collection (Scala, 2020), as well as a biographical essay and catalogue entries in Antiquity and America: The Ancient Mediterranean in the United States (Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 2022)