Transpacific Encounters

Offering new lines of inquiry into how transpacific encounters along global trade routes transformed the visual arts

Ornately carved wooden structure behind sculpture of a female figure holding a baby flanked by intricate columns on either side.

(altar) Retablo, ca. 1700s, Leyte, Philippines. Molave wood, polychrome, and gold leaf. Ayala Museum Collection. (statue) Virgin Mary and Child, 1600s, Southern Luzon, Philippines. Polychrome painted wood and ivory with gilt silver globe. Mr. and Mrs. Paulino Que Collection. Photograph courtesy of Asian Civilisations Museum

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This project analyzes the transformation of the arts as a result of cross-cultural global trading networks that emerged between the Americas and Asia and extending to Europe. In addition to building upon the well-established research on transatlantic interchanges between Spain and Portugal and their colonies in the Americas, this research shifts the emphasis onto transpacific engagements.

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