Manuscripts

Beth received her PhD from Cornell University and began her career at the Getty Museum in 1996. During her tenure, she has curated or co-curated numerous exhibitions, including the 2010 exhibition Imagining the Past in France, 1250–1500, and the 2019 exhibition Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World. She specializes in the study of manuscript illumination in northern Europe from the Gothic period through the Renaissance. She has published on French vernacular manuscripts, especially history and romance, as well as the role of Flemish devotional and secular illumination at the Burgundian court. Her recent research centers on the depiction of animals in bestiaries and other illuminated manuscripts.

A graduate of Mount Holyoke College, Williams College, and the University of Texas at Austin, Kristen came to the Getty Museum in 2002. Her work focuses on manuscripts and the portable arts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, with an emphasis on northern Europe. She has curated and supervised over 20 exhibitions, including the international loan exhibitions Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai (2006) and Canterbury and St. Albans: Treasures from Church and Cloister (2013). In addition to the catalogue for Icons from Sinai, she co-edited and contributed to both The St. Albans Psalter: Painting and Prayer in Medieval England (2013) and St. Albans and the Markyate Psalter: Seeing and Reading in Twelfth-Century England (2017). Recurring themes in both her exhibitions and scholarship have been issues of transcultural exchange, retrospection, and reuse in medieval material culture.

Larisa earned her PhD in the history of art from the University of Pennsylvania in 2016. Her research areas include late medieval and Renaissance French illuminated manuscripts and paintings, multimedia 15th-century visual culture, early printing, materiality, royal patronage of the arts, and modern medievalisms. Her recent exhibition projects include Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World (2019), Blurring the Line: Manuscripts in the Age of Print (2019), Transcending Time: The Medieval Book of Hours (2021), Painted Prophecy: The Hebrew Bible through Christian Eyes (2022), and The Fantasy of the Middle Ages (2022).

Specializing in provenance, Aleia's research primarily revolves around the collecting practices of rare books in royal libraries during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, particularly related to the emergence of "leaves" into the art market. In addition, she conducts extensive research on the documentation of witchcraft and herbal/medicinal practices during the late Middle Ages. Along with a recently completed MA in Museum Studies from Johns Hopkins University, Aleia holds a certificate in digital curation, expanding her expertise in preserving and showcasing historical artifacts and manuscripts. She co-curated the 2023 Getty exhibition A Passion for Collecting Manuscripts.

Orsolya received her PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 2022 and joined the Getty in 2023. Previously, she was a graduate research intern of provenance at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and a Zanvyl Krieger Curatorial Fellow at the Manuscripts and Rare Books Department of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. Her research has focused on the connection between medieval art and devotional practices, psychology, and medicine, as well as on historiography.