Sarah Cohen, M.A.
Dottoranda, Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Sarah F. Cohen is a PhD candidate in Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, specializing in the Medieval, Byzantine, and Islamic art of Venice and its former colonial territories. Sarah joins the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz as the 2025-27 Samuel H. Kress Institutional Fellow. Her dissertation is entitled, “The Icons of San Marco: Images, Relics, and the History of their Veneration in the Doge’s Chapel, ca. 1100-1500." She has previously served as a Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Venetian Research Fellow (2023-2024), Packard Humanities Institute Research Fellow (2024/2025), Ca’ Foscari University visiting researcher in the Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni Culturali (2024-2025), and Istanbul Research Institute Fellow (2025). Sarah received her MA in Art History & Archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU (2019) and BA degrees in Art History & Classics from the College of Charleston (2017).
- Cults & legends
- Byzantine icons
- Relics in Late Antiquity & the Middle Ages
- Byzantine territories in Italy
- Byzantine/Venetian Crete & Cyprus