Prof. Nancy Um will give a talk titled, “A Trail of Coins from Yemen to New York: Networks of Money, People, Things, and Power in the Inventory of Margrieta van Varick, ca. 1695.”
Dr. Steven Nelson, Dean of the Center for the Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, will present the keynote address titled, “The Underground Railroad, Quilts, and the Power of Desire.”
The Yale Department of the History of Art and Program in Early Modern Studies invite you to celebrate a new book by Morgan Ng:
Form and Fortification: The Art of Military Architecture in Renaissance Italy (Yale University Press)
April 10, 2025 - 12:00am to April 12, 2025 - 12:00am
A two-day public event featuring an introductory Nahuatl language workshop and corn planting ceremony at the Yale Farm, led by Dr. Eduardo de la Cruz Cruz, Director of the Instituto de Docencia e Investigación Etnológica de Zacatecas (IDIEZ)
Professor Adam Jasienski will present a lecture titled, “Satins and Dolls: The Material Lives of Sacred Images in Early Modern Spain.” Imagine the following scenario: in 1709 in a small town in Spain a figurine is danced across a table, provoking
Professor Yale Rice will present a lecture titled, “Tactile Histories of the Mughal Album.” As compilations of discrete, fragmentary images and texts in codex format, Mughal albums lend themselves to ocularcentric analysis.
Abigail Rapoport presents a lecture titled, “The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt.” The Book of Esther from the Hebrew Bible was ever-present in the seventeenth-century Netherlands.
