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Faith-based responses to epidemics

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Photograph of a laptop on a desk. On the laptop screen is a live event showing the speaker, Sara Masinelli with a red telephone icon in the top left-hand corner of the screen. She has dark brown hair with a fringe and her hair is tied up. She is wearing a bright red cardigan with a floral top. She is sitting in a living room with a dark sofa behind her. Around the laptop there is a teapot, jam jars, and an empty glass vase with some green leaves from a houseplant coming into view at the left-hand edge of the desk.
Sara Masinelli, Photo: Thomas SG Farnetti & Kathleen Arundell. Source: Wellcome Collection. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Watch a recording of Sara Masinelli in this online event looking at how faith and religion have influenced responses to epidemics in the past and how these reactions have been represented in 18th- and 19th-century Christian Italian prints.

Sara looks closely at a few items from the collections, including etchings and lithographs made after medieval banners and ex-voto. The event reflects on how humanity has turned to religion and art throughout history as an outlet for emotions as a result of tragic events such as pandemics. 

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Sara Masinelli

Sara Masinelli is the Collections Auditor for Prints, Drawings, Paintings and Photographs at Wellcome Collection. She obtained a post-graduate degree in Medieval and Renaissance Art History from the University of Bologna in 2011. Although she is very busy with the inventory of the Visual Material collections, she enjoys conducting research and sharing knowledge on Wellcome Collection’s beautiful objects.