Martina Bagnoli
Robert and Nancy Hall Associate Curator of Medieval Art, The Walters Art Museum
Martina Bagnoli received her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Cambridge in England in 1987 and 1991 respectively and earned her Ph.D. at The Johns Hopkins University in 1998. Bagnoli has been with the Walters since 2003, first joining the staff as Assistant Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts. She has also served as Assistant Curator in the Department of Exhibition Programs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. A specialist of Italian medieval art, Martina has published widely on monumental church decoration, illuminated manuscripts and Western medieval sculpture. While at the Walters, she has served as the curator for several exhibitions, including Revolution! Documents from the American War of Independence (2004); Dressed in Gold: Books of the Italian Renaissance (2005); The Art of Law: Legal Documents from the Collection of the Walters Art Museum (2006); Speaking the Word of God: Illuminated Qur'ans from the Collection of the Walters Art Museum (2007); and Prayers in Code: Books of Hours from Renaissance France (2009). She is currently working on an international loan exhibition on Medieval reliquaries, provisionally titled Matter of Faith: Relics and Reliquaries of the Middle Ages. In addition to her work as curator, Bagnoli teaches medieval art at Georgetown University, where she is an Adjunct Assistant Professor.