The “Globalization of Taste”: Cultural Convergence, Syncretism, and Artistic Production in Asia, Iberia, and the Iberian-American Colonies

Thursday, February 15, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Sutton Parlor South, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Sofia Sanabrais, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

A Taste for the New: Collecting Chinese Ceramics in Renaissance Spain

Maite Alvarez, J. Paul Getty Museum, Mendoza Research Project, University of Southern California


Chinese “Gewgaws and Ornaments of Little Value”: Trading Anxieties in Manila, Mexico, and Latin American Art History

Dana Leibsohn, Smith College


Nanban Art between Nagasaki, Macao, and Acapulco

Alexandra Curvelo, Centro de Historía de Além Mar, Universidade Nova de Lisboa


“Nuestro joven”: San Felipe de Jesús: Syncretism and Innovation in the Martyr Murals at Cuernavaca Cathedral

Sara K. Klein, independent scholar, Chicago


Sublime Passion: Translating Text and Image in a 19th-century Philippine Colonial Manuscript in Valladolid

Florina H. Capistrano-Baker, Ayala Museum


Discussant: Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Princeton University


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