Symposium on Viceregal Art of Latin American and Brazil Session 1

This recent symposium, co-hosted by Athena and the Colnaghi Foundation, featured scholars from Latin America, Brazil, North America and Europe, with talks on objects from the 16th - 19th centuries ranging from silverwork, panel painting and featherwork to polychrome sculpture and prints. It also included talks on the history of collecting and the first exhibition of pan-American art which took place in Montreal in 1967.

Symposium on The Art of Viceregal Latin America and Brazil
Colnaghi Foundation, London
26th September 2024

13:00 – 13:10
Welcome, Candida Lodovica de Angelis Corvi, Executive Director, Colnaghi Foundation; Dr Nicola Jennings, Athena Art Foundation

Session 1, moderated by Dr Nicola Jennings

13:10-13:30
Helena Santidrián Mas, MA, Courtauld Institute of Art (2023-24)
“Santiago Mataespañoles Silver Statuette. Contact Zones and Changing Iconographies in Nineteenth- Century Peru”

13:35-13:55
Dr Ana Maria Tavares Cavalcanti, Associate Professor in Art History, Fine Arts School, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
“The Rediscovery of The Vidigal, a Missing Painting by the Black Brazilian Artist Firmino Monteiro (1855-1888)”

14:00-14:20
Dr Sanja Savkic Sebek, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut & Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas
“Saint Joseph with the Child, an 18th- century feather mosaic from Mexico”

14:25-14:45
Sergio Coca, Cuerpo Facultativo de Conservadores de Museos Estatales, Museo de América, Madrid
“El Coleccionismo de Belenes de la Real Audiencia de Quito en España. Un Caso de Estudio en el Museo de América de Madrid.”

14:50-15:10
Dr Alena Robin, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Visual Arts, Western University Canada
“The Painter and the New World: Celebrating the Centennial of the Canadian Confederation through a Hemispheric Approach”

15:15-15:40
Discussion

Session 2, moderated by Dr Akemi Herráez Vossbrink

16:15-16:35
Dr Vivien Kogut Lessa de Sá, Associate Professor in Portuguese Studies, Cambridge University
“The Art of the Ibirapema: Epistemological and Gendered Crossroads between Europe and Brazil”

16:40-17:00
Dr Cláudia de Oliveira, Associate Professor of History of Art, School of Fine Arts, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
“Market Scene (1864) by Francisca Manoela Valadão: Gaze in Black and White”

17:05-17:25
Montserrat Baez Hernández, PhD student in History at the Università di Teramo (Italy) and KU Leuven (Belgium)
“De Gadini a Zendejas: hallazgos y nuevas reflexiones en torno a la Serie de la vida de Sebastián de Aparicio en la iglesia de San Francisco, Puebla, México”

17:25-17:55
Discussion

18:05-18:25
Dr Rafael Ramos, Professor of Hispanoamerican History of Art, Universidad de Sevilla
“Las pinturas en las viviendas de Lima (siglo XVII)”

18:30-18:50
Professor Delia Cosentino, Scholar-in-Residence at the Newberry Library; Professor
of History of Art and Architecture, affiliated with Latino American and Latino Studies at DePaul University (Chicago)
“The Making of a Mexican Spartacus: Aztec Gladiators and Early Modern European Print Culture”

18:50-19:20
Discussion