Making a Masterpiece: The Royal Inca Tunic at Dumbarton Oaks

The royal Inca tunic at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, in Washington, D.C., has long been recognized as the single most important artifact to have survived from the Inca civilization. Examining this tremendously complex work of art yields a richer appreciation of Inca artistic practices, aesthetics, and color theory. In this lecture, Andrew J. Hamilton, Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows and Lecturer in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University, New Jersey, shares new research on this fascinating object.

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Weaving and the Social World: 3,000 Years of Ancient Andean Textiles and sponsored by the Martin A. Ryerson Fund.