At this free symposium, presented in conjunction with the 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 will offer new methodologies, seeking to expand the boundaries of this visual culture. Presentations will explore the exhibition’s thematic emphases on materiality and sacredness, hybridity and cross-cultural exchange, colonial constructions of race, and recovering art histories marked by silence and erasure.

Please email eas8@cornell.edu to register in advance for in-person attendance in the Museum’s Robinson Lecture Hall, or click here to join the webinar (Passcode: 673987).

Symposium schedule

8:30AM
Continental breakfast and registration

9:00AM
Welcome and Introduction

9:15AM
Session 1: Framing the Divine: Visualizing Devotion in the Spanish Americas
Discussion moderator: Ananda Cohen-Aponte, Cornell University

Presentations

“Trent as Compass: Directions, Circuits, and Crossings of the Visual and Canonical in Spanish America”
Cristina Cruz González, Oklahoma State University

“Invisible Soldiers and Constant Servants: The Pre-Hispanic Roots of the Andean Cult of Angels”
Maya Stanfield-Mazzi, University of Florida

“Framing Miracles for a New World: The Oval”
Jennifer Baez, University of Washington

11:00AM
Session 2: Abundance and Acculturation: The Visual Languages of Luxury and Liberation
Discussion moderator: Leonardo Santamaría-Montero, PhD candidate, Cornell University

Presentations

“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

“Supplicant Africans: From Baptizands to Emblems of Abolition”
Elena FitzPatrick Sifford, Muhlenberg College

Lunch break

1:30PM
Session 3: Temporal Interventions: The Spanish Colonial World through Musical Heritage and Asynchronous Juxtapositions
Discussion moderator: Andrew C. Weislogel, Johnson Museum

Presentations

“Voices of Influence: Exploring Power Dynamics in the Conservation of Musical Heritage in Colonial Latin America”
Presentation and fortepiano performance
Patricia García Gil, Cornell University

“Time-Warping the Museum: Temporal Juxtapositions in Displays of Spanish Colonial Art”
Lucía Abramovich Sánchez, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston