Concise, critical reviews of books, exhibitions, and projects in all areas and periods of art history and visual studies

Seventeenth Century
Dissertations in Progress by Subject, 2023

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Feldman, Amalya, "Small Space Networks: Jewish/Converso Urban Identities in the Crown of Aragon, 1300–1700" (University of Toronto, C. Anderson)

Fitzgerald, Xena, "Theatrical Objects: Material Culture of Jesuit Spectacle in the Viceroyalty of Peru" (Tulane University, S. Porras)

Giguere, Natalie, "Presence and Absence: The Body in Seventeenth-Century Netherlandish Still-Life Painting" (University of Delaware, H. P. Chapman)

Hagen, Emily, "Pietro da Cortona’s Santi Luca e Martina: Rediscovered Relics and the Spectacle of Reform in Seventeenth-Century Rome" (Penn State University, R. Thomas, D. Zolli)

Hein, Erin, "Accident and Fortuna in Seventeenth-Century Italian Art and Theory" (University of Delaware, D. M. Stone)

Johnson, Gabriella, "Galatea's Realm: The Art of Coral, Shells, and Marine Fossils in Early Modern Sicily, Naples, and the Maltese Islands" (University of Delaware, D. Stone)

Jozwik, Nicole, "Potosí’s Age of Wind: The Art and Material Culture of the Silver City’s Indigenous Miners" (Tulane University, B. Mundy, K. Lane)

Menders, Trevor, "Dancing with Genji: Painting, Performance, and Politics in Seventeenth-century Japan (Harvard University, Y. Lippit, M. McCormick)

Russell, Sarah, "The art of undeception in early modern Spain" (Columbia University, D. Bodart. C. Michael)

Sternbach, Jessica, "Through the Ears to the Soul: Female Musicians in Dutch Seventeenth-Century Painting" (Temple University, A. West, T. Cooper)

Takaes de Oliveira, Ianick, " 'A Most Severe Judgment to All Peoples’: On the Uses of Philippe Thomas sin's Last Judgement (1606) across the Early Modern Iberian World" (Columbia University, M. Cole)

Watters, Marta, "Bodies of Experimental Philosophies: Animal Objects as Embodiments of Art and Science in Early Modern Northern Europe" (University of Missouri, Columbia, A. Rudloff Stanton)

Zhu, Ying, "The Color of Taste: Boneless Landscape in the Seventeenth Century" (University of Kansas, A. McNair)