Dissertations

Early Modern

Anthony Meyer

The Givers of Things: Tlamacazqueh and the Art of Religious Making in the Mexica and Early Transatlantic Worlds

Adviser: Stella Nair
  • 2023
  • UCLA

Early Modern

#Architecture#Central American#Religion#Sculpture

Rebecca Teresi

Images of the Immaculate Conception and the Rhetorics of Purity in Golden Age Spain

Adviser: Felipe Pereda
  • 2021
  • Johns Hopkins University

Early Modern

#Court Studies#Ideology and Politics#Religion

Akemi Luisa Herráez Vossbrink

Francisco de Zurbarán and his Workshop’s Painting Production for the Americas: Trade, Collections and Reception

Adviser: Jean Michel Massing
  • 2021
  • University of Cambridge

Early Modern

#Colonial and Viceregal#Painting#Patronage#South American

Martijn van Beek

Artifex. Architectural Reasoning, Drawing and Rhetoric in the Oeuvre of Friar Juan Ricci de Guevara (1600-1681)

Adviser: Freek Schmidt
  • 2021
  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Early Modern

#Architecture#Works on Paper#Religion#Theory and Historiography

Kristopher Driggers

The History of Idolatry and the Codex Durán Paintings

Adviser: Claudia Brittenham
  • 2020
  • University of Chicago

Early Modern

#Ancient Americas

María Lumbreras

The Facture of Evidence: Portraits, Painting and Artistic Knowledge in Spain, 1590-1640

Adviser: Felipe Pereda
  • 2020
  • Johns Hopkins University

Early Modern

#Archaeology#Material Culture

Allison Caplan

Their Flickering Creations: Value, Appearance, Animacy, and Surface in Nahua Precious Art

Adviser: Elizabeth Hill Boone
  • 2019
  • Tulane University

Early Modern

#Material Culture#Colonial and Viceregal#Ancient Americas

Lucia Abramovich

Precious Materiality in Colonial Andean Art: Gold, Silver, and Jewels in Paintings of the Virgin

Adviser: Elizabeth Hill Boone
  • 2019
  • Tulane University

Early Modern

#Colonial and Viceregal

Ximena Gomez

Nuestra Señora: Confraternal Art and Identity in Early Colonial Lima

Adviser: Megan Holmes
  • 2019
  • University of Michigan

Early Modern

#Colonial and Viceregal

Jennifer Saracino

Shifting Landscape: Depictions of Cultural Disruption and Continuity in the Mapa Uppsala of Mexico-Tenochtitlan

Adviser: Elizabeth Hill Boone
  • 2018
  • Tulane University

Early Modern

#Works on Paper#Colonial and Viceregal#Ancient Americas