At this symposium, presented in conjunction with the Johnson Museum of Art exhibition “Colonial Crossings: Art, Identity, and Belief in the Spanish Americas,” established scholars whose work encompasses a variety of regions and approaches to colonial Latin American art history offer new methodologies seeking to expand the boundaries of this visual culture. The symposium was made possible through the generous support of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation.
The second session, “Abundance and Acculturation: The Visual Languages of Luxury and Liberation,” was moderated by Leonardo Santamaría-Montero, PhD candidate at Cornell University.
Presentations at the second session were “Splendor and Iridescence: Pearls in the Art of the Spanish Americas,” Mónica Dominguez Torres (University of Delaware); “‘Your Plenteous Grandeur Resides in You’: Asian Luxury in Spanish American Domestic Interiors,” Juliana Fagua Arias (Cornell University); and “Supplicant Africans: From Baptizands to Emblems of Abolition,” Elena FitzPatrick Sifford (Muhlenberg College).