Graduate Student Profile

Jessica Savage is a PhD student in the Department of Art History interested in the art of the book in the later Middle Ages, especially the iconographic programs, trends, and networks of devotional manuscripts produced in Northern and Central Europe. Her research considers text/image relationships and diptych pairings of images in prayer books made over the long fifteenth century (1380–1520), including their customization, development, and variation, which reveal a transmission of artistic ideas within European bookmaking networks. She is especially interested in the visualization of the psalms, including the Seven Penitential Psalms, and the art of personification. Savage earned her BFA in Fine Arts and Art History from Pratt Institute and her Master of Letters in History of Art and Connoisseurship from the University of Glasgow, studying in the joint program of Christie’s Education London with a focus on early European art. She also earned her Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) degree from Rutgers University in 2014. For over fifteen years, Jessica has worked on the research staff of the Index of Medieval Art at Princeton University, where she researches a wide range of medieval works of art for the Index’s online database, collaborates on implementing best practices for digital access, and assists in fielding research questions to the archive.