Miranda Micko 1st Blog post

Miranda Micko 1st Blog post

by Miranda Micko -

I began my endeavor into art history my freshman year when I took Intro to Medieval Art and Architecture: HART B110. I fell in love with the process of formal analysis and all the religious art created during the Middle Ages. This led me to take a religion course on conceptions of medieval blood and art with Professor Cohen in RELG 297: Blood and Religion. We spent a significant portion of the course studying how blood and divinity are represented in art and how it coincides with theories of religion. As both an art history and religion major, my area of interest is how the divine has been historically represented. When analysing this art, I like to take a gendered approach, considering how divine women in particular are represented. This previous year, I helped curate an exhibition with Professor McKee in HART 350 Caribbean Art on the World Stage. While in this course, I learned about Haitian art, specifically representations and iconography of Voodoo. This was a fascinating topic that had a plethora of research in both religion and art history. In my freshman year, I took the course The Global Baroque HART 140. Baroque art is by far my favorite to study. The dramatics, lighting, and motifs are breathtaking. Artemisia Gentileschi and Caravaggio were two of my favorites to study.