CPS Lecture: Stephanie Porras

Abstract: On either side of the Pacific, seventeenth-century ivory carvers in Manila and feather workers in New Spain produced triptychs depicting St Jerome, based on the same printed imported from Antwerp. These related objects made variously of paper, wood, feathers and ivory, reveal the mechanics of early modern globalization, the ways in which copying at a distance allowed for a realignment of economies of labor and materials, affording opportunities for artists to  to imagine and respond to faraway consumers, to experiment with d acts of appropriation and creative assembly.

Bio: Stephanie Porras is Professor of Art History and Chair of the Newcomb Art Department at Tulane University in New Orleans. She is a scholar of the visual and material culture of early modern Europe, particularly Northern Europe and the Spanish world. She is the author of Pieter Bruegel’s Historical Imagination (2016), The Art of the Northern Renaissance: Courts, Commerce, Devotion (2018) and the forthcoming The First Viral Images: Maerten de Vos, Antwerp and the early modern globe.

Cosponsored by the Department of Art History and the Early Modern Atlantic Workshop

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