Marina Hopkins

Marina Hopkins is a master’s student in Art History, Curatorship and Renaissance Culture at the Warburg Institute, co-taught by the National Gallery, with a bachelor’s degree in Italian and Spanish from University College London. Her master’s dissertation investigates the migration of the bodies, images, and cults of saints from Lebanon to Italy, questioning the shifts in the representation of their identities across time and space with a particular focus on constructions of gender. During her fellowship at the Medici Archive Project, Marina will be examining the cultural and artistic consequences of encounters that took place between Tuscany and the Maronite community in Lebanon in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Marina hopes to develop this research into a doctoral project on the intercultural circuits that connected Lebanon and Italy and facilitated the motion of people, objects and images across the Mediterranean in the early modern period.