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 NairRebecca Teresi
Images of the Immaculate Conception and the Rhetorics of Purity in Golden Age Spain
Adviser: Felipe PeredaAkemi Luisa Herráez Vossbrink
Francisco de Zurbarán and his Workshop’s Painting Production for the Americas: Trade, Collections and Reception
Adviser: Jean Michel MassingMartijn van Beek
Artifex. Architectural Reasoning, Drawing and Rhetoric in the Oeuvre of Friar Juan Ricci de Guevara (1600-1681)
Adviser: Freek SchmidtMaría Lumbreras
The Facture of Evidence: Portraits, Painting and Artistic Knowledge in Spain, 1590-1640
Adviser: Felipe PeredaKristopher Driggers
The History of Idolatry and the Codex Durán Paintings
Adviser: Claudia BrittenhamXimena Gomez
Nuestra Señora: Confraternal Art and Identity in Early Colonial Lima
Adviser: Megan HolmesLucia Abramovich
Precious Materiality in Colonial Andean Art: Gold, Silver, and Jewels in Paintings of the Virgin
Adviser: Elizabeth Hill BooneAllison Caplan
Their Flickering Creations: Value, Appearance, Animacy, and Surface in Nahua Precious Art
Adviser: Elizabeth Hill BooneMark Castro
Inspired Invention: Cristóbal de Villalpando’s Paintings of the Life of Saint Francis
Adviser: Gridley McKim-SmithAndrea McKenzie
Andean Concepts and Scripted Pictures: Ukhu, Sight, and Sound in the Drawings of Guaman Poma de Ayala
Adviser: Rebecca StoneAliza M. Benjamin
Gold, Stonework and Feathers: Mexica Material Culture and the Making of Hapsburg Europe
Advisers: Ashley West and Tracy CooperJessica Stair
Indigenous Literacies in the Techialoyan Manuscripts of New Spain
Advisers: Todd Olson and Lisa TreverJennifer Saracino
Shifting Landscape: Depictions of Cultural Disruption and Continuity in the Mapa Uppsala of Mexico-Tenochtitlan
Adviser: Elizabeth Hill BooneIsabel Oleas-Mogollón
Art and Jesuit Patronage in Colonial Quito: The Prophet Paintings at the Church of La Compañía
Adviser: Monica Domínguez TorresEmily Floyd
Matrices of Devotion: Lima’s Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Devotional Prints and Local Religion in the Viceroyalty of Peru
Adviser: Elizabeth Hill BooneFelipe Álvarez de Toledo López Herrera
Pinturas Infinitas para América. A Data-Driven History of the Market for Paintings in Seville (1500-1700)
Adviser: Hans J. Van MiegroetEmily Wood
Art, Politics, and Diplomacy at the Courts of Philip II in Madrid and the Medici in Florence
Adviser: Jesús EscobarJoAnna Reyes Walton
Piety, Plata, and Place: Civic Development and Devotion in Colonial Zacatecas
Adviser: Charlene Villaseñor BlackShelly Alice Burian
Pre-Hispanic and Colonial Period Aymara Ceremonial Garments of Bolivia and Peru: Structure and Significance
Adviser: Rebecca Stone