Rebecca Ruppar, Ph.D.

Rebecca Ruppar has long been fascinated by the interweaving of visual art, nature, and religion. Her current book project examines the earliest wood-panel paintings of the Franciscan order in their iconographic response to Christian heterodoxy. Further interests include material and craft theory, church architecture and furnishings, ecocriticism, object biography, and the reception of the medieval period in contemporary media.

Ph.D. Art History and Archaeology, University of Missouri
M.A. Art History and Archaeology, University of Missouri
M.A. Theology and Religious Studies, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
B.A. Art History, Theology, Saint Louis University (Apha Sigma Nu, Phi Beta Kappa)

Global Art History Survey I (Prehistoric to 600 CE)
Medieval Art
Art & the Catholic Tradition
Art & Visual Culture (Writing Intensive)
Early Italian Renaissance Art
Art History: Western Prehistory to Renaissance
Art History: Western Renaissance to Modern
Art & Visual Culture (Arrupe College)
Loyola's Mission: Ignatian Traditions (Department of Theology)
Interdisciplinary Honors Program:
Western Traditions: Antiquity to the Middle Ages
Developments in the History of Western Thought I (Writing Intensive)
Western Traditions: Renaissance to Modernity
Developments in the History of Western Thought II (Writing Intensive)

“A Hierophany of Nature in the Early Franciscans’ Wood-Panel Paintings,” Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art & Architecture, 8, 2 (2022): 149-169, https://digital.kenyon.edu/perejournal/vol8/iss2/5

“Mysteries and Histories in the Orthodox Triptych,” Muse: Annual of the Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri. 50 (2016): 59-74

“Distinction: Five Centuries of Portraiture,” Museum Magazine, Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri. Number 69, Fall 2016