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Iowa State University

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5.05/4/2026

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Sarah Kyle is Professor and Chair of the Department of Art & Visual Culture in Iowa State University's College of Design, as well as Interim Director of the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities. She is a historian of late medieval and Italian Renaissance art and ideas, with research specializing in illustrated botanical manuscripts as sites of convergence for Pan-Mediterranean medical traditions, humanist enterprises, and artistic currents, particularly in the courts of northern Italy and Venice during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Her scholarly interests encompass early Renaissance Italy, Renaissance and baroque humanities, alchemy, art and medicine in early modern Italy, baroque Rome, Dante’s “Inferno,” early modern traditions, medicine and humanism in late medieval Italy, and pharmacology in Renaissance Venice.