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SIGA briefs
Shannah Rose named Fellow at American Academy in Rome
Shannah Rose (PhD Candidate, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University) was awarded the 2024-2025 Samuel H. Kress Foundation/Marian and Andrew Heiskell Rome Prize in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at the American Academy in Rome
Reva Wolf: The Victim as Martyr
Reva Wolf recently published the essay “The Victim as Martyr: The Black Legend and Eighteenth-Century Images of Inquisition Punishments, from Picart to Coustos to Goya” in The Black Legend of Spain and its Atlantic Empire in the Eighteenth Century. The book is part of the series Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment and is edited by Catherine Jaffe and Karen Stolley. The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) held a panel about the book at its 2024 conference, in Toronto, at which Reva and five other contributors to the book spoke.
Elizabeth Valdez del Alamo leads Silos Cloister Tour
On April 12, Elizabeth Valdez del Alamo gave a tour of the cloister of Silos to the attendees of the British Archaeological Association meeting in Valladolid, Spain.
Dissertations
The Givers of Things: Tlamacazqueh and the Art of Religious Making in the Mexica and Early Transatlantic Worlds
By Anthony Meyer, UCLA, 2023
Facing Pilgrimage: Tenon Head Sculptures at the Ceremonial Center of Chavín de Huántar, Peru
By Patricia Lagarde, Tulane University, 2022
Artifex. Architectural Reasoning, Drawing and Rhetoric in the Oeuvre of Friar Juan Ricci de Guevara (1600-1681)
By Martijn van Beek, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2021
Images of the Immaculate Conception and the Rhetorics of Purity in Golden Age Spain
By Rebecca Teresi, Johns Hopkins University, 2021
Francisco de Zurbarán and his Workshop’s Painting Production for the Americas: Trade, Collections and Reception
By Akemi Luisa Herráez Vossbrink, University of Cambridge, 2021
Fertile Terrain: Botany, Art, and Power in Cuba’s Nineteenth Century
By Emily Sessions, Yale University, 2020