Jill Caskey
Associate Professor
Graduate Department of Art
University of Toronto
Canada
Biography
My interests in medieval art gravitate toward the mobile – merchants, conquerors, pilgrims, relics, and portable objects – and their intersections with the immobile, or architecture, wall painting, mosaics, and architectural sculpture. I have probed these intersections primarily by analyzing the dynamics of patronage in southern Italy and Sicily from ca. 1050 to 1350. My current research examines the patronage of major cult and pilgrimage sites in southern Italy around 1300. This project deals with a range of art forms and media, from great church architecture to the old and newly made contents of church treasuries, and their impact on the production of sacred space in an era of cultural, religious, and political transformation.
Research Interest
Medieval Art & Architecture
