Julie Harris

Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership

02/03/2020 - 06/07/2020

Julie A. Harris is a specialist in the art of medieval Spain and is affiliated with the Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership in Chicago. She has published on ivory carving, pilgrimage, and the fate of art and architecture during the Reconquest. Her work on the art of Jewish Iberia may be found in "Gesta, Medieval Encounters, the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies" and the "Journal of Medieval History." Her project at the Clark concerns the decorative Carpet pages of Iberian Hebrew Bibles, in particular their materiality, function, and the tension between ornament and meaning presented by their decoration.