TALK: Whose Renaissance? The Peripatetic
Life of Objects in the Era of Globalization
Claire Farago (History of Art, University of
Colorado, Boulder)
Monday, April 16 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020
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This talk investigates some of the contributions of
extra-European art to European culture since the first
era of globalization in the sixteenth century. Farago
will chart the fortunes of several strategically chosen
categories of objects at both ends of the cultural
exchange to show how extra-European art and culture
have shaped European artistic ideals and also how these
same artistic objects performed at their point of origin. Such
artistic objects include Mexican painted manuscripts,
European religious prints, and featherwork mosaics.
Dr. Farago is a professor of History of Art at the
University of Colorado, Boulder. As a specialist
on many facets of visual culture in the early modern
period, including Leonardo da Vinci, she has authored
and edited many books including, most recently, Transforming
Images: Locating New Mexican Santos in-between Worlds (2006), Grasping
the World: The Idea of the Museum (2004), and Reframing
the Renaissance: Visual Culture in Europe and Latin
America 1450 to 1650 (1995).
Sponsored by the Idee Levitan IHC Endowed Lecture
Series, and the Department of the History of Art and
Architecture
