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Maria Streicher is a Researcher at the Institute of Art History within the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Tübingen. She is actively involved in the DFG/FWF project 'History as a Visual Concept: Peter of Poitiers’ Compendium Historiae' (2023–2025) and the Collaborative Research Center SFB 1391 'Andere Ästhetik', including roles as a project member (2021–2023) and doctoral-level representative (2023–2024). Her work focuses on medieval and early modern religious art, materiality, and visual concepts.
- PhD candidate (since 2020) studying seven-branched candelabras in churches.
- Master’s degree in Art History (2020, Karl Franzens University Graz).
- Bachelor’s degrees in Romanistics/Spanish (2021) and Art History (2018), with Erasmus+ exchange (2018).
Her research explores the interplay between Jewish and Christian religious symbolism, particularly in medieval contexts. She investigates the materiality of sacred objects like the menorah and seven-branched candelabras, their liturgical reconfigurations, and cultural appropriation dynamics. She also engages with digital humanities methods for visualizing historical genealogies.
Maria has co-edited a forthcoming volume on seven-branched candelabras with Prof. Andrea Worm and contributed a peer-reviewed chapter in *Materialität und Medialität* (2023). She has presented at international conferences including the International Medieval Congress (2024) and DH2023, focusing on topics like premodern cultural appropriation and the spatial recontextualization of religious artifacts.
She is affiliated with the Collaborative Research Center SFB 1391 'Andere Ästhetik' and the Excellence Cluster 'Religion und Wissen' at the University of Münster. Her work involves analyzing medieval visual culture, manuscript materiality, and the symbolic use of bronze and gold in ecclesiastical settings.
