Free of charge
About the lecture
Porras will present her recent book, The First Viral Images: Maerten de Vos, Antwerp Print, and the Early Modern Globe (PSU Press, 2023), which traces how three objects made in Antwerp – an illustrated book, a painting and an engraving – were copied across the globe in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by Venetian print publishers, Spanish and Latin American painters, Mughal miniaturists, and Filipino ivory carvers,. This talk considers why buyers across the early modern globe desired Flemish artworks and describes how these objects travelled across oceans and continents, arguing that these mobile artworks helped drive processes of globalization.
This lecture series for the exhibition Saints, Sinners, Lovers and Fools: Three Hundred Years of Flemish Masterworks was developed in collaboration with Itay Sapir, Professor of Art History at the Université du Québec à Montréal.
About the speaker
Stephanie Porras is Professor of Art History and Chair of the Newcomb Art Department at Tulane University in New Orleans. She specializes in the visual and material cultures of Northern Europe, the Spanish world, and the Dutch Atlantic from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. The author of Pieter Bruegel’s Historical Imagination (2016), Art of the Northern Renaissance: Courts, Commerce and Devotion (2018), and The First Viral Images: Maerten de Vos, Antwerp Print, and the Early Modern Globe (2023), she has also co-edited several titles, such as the recent The Routledge Companion to Global Renaissance Art (2024).
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Location: Maxwell Cummings Auditorium, 1379-A, Sherbrooke Street West
Reservation terms: Please note that unclaimed reserved seats will be made available to other participants.
