Caitlin Petty

Caitlin Petty is a PhD Candidate in the Art History and Archaeology Department at Washington University in St. Louis where she focuses on the intersection of art, medicine, and religion in early modern Italy under Dr. William E. Wallace. She completed her MA in Italian Renaissance Art through Syracuse University’s Florence Program in 2020. As a Samuel H. Kress Fellow, Caitlin’s research will center on Lodovico Cigoli’s red wax statuette (c. 1600) of a flayed figure, which was used as an anatomical teaching tool at the Florentine Accademia del Disegno and later reproduced in bronze by collectors such as the Medici.