Details from St. Michael the Archangel, from left to right: Hieronymus Wierix after Maerten de Vos, St Michael the Archangel, 1584, engraving published by Adriaen Huybrechts and Hieronymus Wierix. London, British Museum; Cristóbal Vela Cobo, St Michael the Archangel, ca. 1631, oil on canvas. Museo de Bellas Artes, Cordoba; Hispano-Philippine, St Michael the Archangel, ca. 1630, ivory with polychromy and gilding. Mexico City, Basílica de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe; Limeño, St Michael the archangel with donor, ca. 1630, oil on canvas. Lima, San Pedro
Going Viral in the Renaissance featuring Stephanie Porras
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What do today's TikTok dances and Renaissance prints have in common? In this talk, Stephanie Porras describes how early modern prints invited repetition and emulation, taking advantage of new media technologies and emerging global infrastructures long before the invention of the Internet. Examining how prints and other artworks were used as models by artists working across the early modern world, Porras reconstructs how such images were copied and, in doing so, challenges assumptions about artistic invention in Renaissance art. The talk will be followed by a wine and cheese reception.
Stephanie Porras is professor of art history at Tulane University. Her research focuses on northern European art of the 15th to 17th centuries. She is the author of Pieter Bruegel's Historical Imagination (2016), The Art of the Northern Renaissance: Courts, Commerce, Devotion (2018), and most recently, The First Viral Images: Maerten de Vos, Antwerp and the Early Modern Globe (2023).
Mary Miller is the director of the Getty Research Institute.
Sponsored by the Getty Research Institute Council, the annual Thomas and Barbara Gaehtgens Lecture series is dedicated to highlighting leading research in the field of global art history. Learn more about the series.
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