Recentering the Margins: Networks, Portable Culture, and Local Agencies in the Early Modern Hispanic World

One of the main challenges facing Global Art History has been the difficulty of combining global perspectives with regional and local scales. Our workshop focuses on making visible the interactions between these scales to explore how traditionally de-emphasized geographies took part in the production of meaning of globalized material culture in the early modern Hispanic World. Our main objective will be to identify how these mobile objects enriched their own biographies through their movement within these networks, multiplying their meanings and changing their values by moving through the interconnected geographies in the Americas, Spain, and Italy.

PROGRAM

1:45pm Workshop Introduction
Vanina Scocchera, Amy Chang, Quim Solias-Huélamo

14.00 - 15:30 - Session I. Circulating Material Culture. From cultural reinterpretation to censorship
Moderator: Vanina Scocchera, Panel Chair: Tristan Weddigen (Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome)

1. José Gabriel Alegría (Stony Brook University) "Per mano degli Angeli, dalla Grecia trasportato: The icon of the Madonna di Montallegro di Rapallo that appeared in 1557”

2. Nora Guggenbühler (Universität Zürich) “Mobile Biographies: Circulating Copies of the Madonna di Trapani and the Making of New Cult Images in the Iberian World”

3. Mónica Pulido Echeveste (ENES Morelia, UNAM) “Sacred replicas: The Transatlantic Circulation of the “Salus populi Romani” in Late Sixteenth-Century Mexico”

15:30 - 16.00 - Coffee Break

16.00 - 17.30 - Session II. Material Culture in Motion. Dynamizing agents and circuits
Moderator: Amy Chang, Panel Chair: Bianca de Divitiis (Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence)

4. Quim Solias-Huélamo (BHMPI- Stony Brook University) “Maps of Lima in Circulation between Amsterdam, Seville and Lima (1684-1688)”

5. José Araneda (Università Roma Tre) "Choosing Objects, Tracing Journeys: Itineraries in the Material World of the Seventeenth-Century Colonial Andes"

6. Vanina Scocchera (BHMPI - CONICET, UNTREF) “Local networks in global perspective: material culture in exchange by provincial procurators of Chile and Paraguay in Peru viceroyalty”

17.30 - 18.00 - Coffee Break

18.00 - 19.00 - Concluding Lecture, Moderator: Quim Solias-Huélamo

Flavia Tudini (Università Roma Tre) “Testi, immagini e narrazioni dei santi americani nella Roma Barocca. Prospettive di ricerca e casi di studio”

Scientific Organization: Vanina Scocchera (Post-doc fellow, dept. Weddigen), Quim Solias-Huélamo (Pre-doc fellow, dept. Michalsky), and Amy Y.T. Chang (Kress fellow, dept. Weddigen)