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Speaker: Stephen J. Campbell

Renaissance Italian Art after the Spatial Turn

Research Seminar
In the wake of History of art‘s "spatial turn", the historiography of pre-modern Italy has seemed more peripheral than central.To what extent have conversations about art as instrument of a colonizing process, as a conduit for cultural exchange, of translation and adaptation by colonial subjects, métissage, transfert culturel, and so on transformed the way we might conceive the artistic geography of Italy in the era before and after Vasari’s history of art imposed a seemingly intractable hierarchy of place? [more]
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