Kathrin Müller

Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

February–May 2015

Kathrin Müller is Associate Professor of Art History at the Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main. She works primarily on Western medieval and early Renaissance art, with particular attention to intersections between art and science. Her book on astronomical diagrams in medieval manuscripts was published in 2008. At the Clark, she will be working on her current book manuscript titled “On the Disappearance of Animals: A Study in the Changes in Italian Silk Ornament of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries within the Context of the Visual Arts.” It reconsiders the status of ornament and the manifestations of pictorial naturalism during the transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.