Rachel Wise

Dr. Rachel Wise is an early modern art historian with a primary research focus on political and religious disarray, scarcity, and cultures of memory in northern Europe. Her recent publications examine linen damask, Hendrick Goltzius’s print series of Lucretia, and counting jetons forged in the crucible of the Eighty Years’ War (1568–1648). She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 2020. Rachel has taught courses on the Northern Renaissance and Northern Baroque. In 2021, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Rubenianum in Antwerp, Belgium, where her research on Flemish painter Maarten de Vos (1532-1603) was funded by the Belgian American Educational Foundation. She has also held the Dr. Anton C.R. Dreesmann Fellowship at the Rijksmuseum as well as an Andrew W. Mellon-funded fellowship at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.