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Vortragender: Christopher J. Nygren

Shards of the New World: Painting on Obsidian and the Ecologies of Early Modern Art

Research Seminar
Spanish colonization introduced a host of artistic materials into European workshops. This research seminar examines the artistic, ecological, and spiritual stakes that motivated several European painters to use obsidian from the Americas as the substrate for their devotional paintings. [mehr]
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