Intercultural Materialities in the Early Modern World
A South Africa Event on 2016-04-22 10:00:00
Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall, Uris Center for Education Show location on map
The fellows present brief papers on their research and explore common scholarly questions. Today's schedule is:
Kate Holohan, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, "Mesoamerican Idols, Spanish Medicine: Jade in the Collection of Philip II"
Sylvia Houghteling, Sylvan C. Coleman and Pam Coleman Memorial Fund Fellow, Department of Islamic Art, "Bastard Blooms and Fugitive Fabrics: The Subversive Work of Dyers in Seventeenth-Century South Asia"
Julia McHugh, Douglass Foundation Fellow, The American Wing, "Dressing Andean Spaces: Colonial Tapestries and Their Painted Doubles"
Mei Mei Rado, Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow, Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, "From French 'Tenture chinoise' to Chinese 'Western Tapestries' in the Qing Palace in Eighteenth-Century China"
Jessica Walthew, Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellow, Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, "A Technical Approach to Looking at African Textiles"
These colloquia are made possible in part by Mrs. Henry S. Blackwood.
Part of Fellows Colloquia.
Assistive listening devices are available from the ushers.
at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, United States
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