Justin Willson
The Icon Museum and Study Center, Clinton, Massachusetts
Justin Willson is Curator at The Icon Museum and Study Center in Clinton, Massachusetts. His show, “Printed Icons: Medieval Image, Modern Process,” October 17, 2024-March 30, 2025, examines how print transformed the creation and reception of iconography across Eastern Europe, the Balkans and Russia over the 17th - 19th centuries. His broader research focuses on concepts of the work of art in later Byzantium and the early Slavic world. His first book, The Moods of Early Russian Art, investigates the ways that style, iconography, and the function of liturgical and cult images modulated over the fourteenth to sixteenth century in Muscovy. He is editing volume 4 in the series Sources in Byzantine Art History: The Visual Culture of Late Byzantium and the Early Modern Orthodox World, c.1350-c.1669 (Cambridge University Press, 2028). He received his PhD in Art & Archaeology at Princeton University in 2021 and was the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Art History Leadership at the Cleveland Museum of Art / Case Western Reserve University for 2022-24.
The ho Ōn Inscription in Christ’s Halo
Transferring Jerusalem to Moscow: Maksim Grek’s Letter and Its Afterlife