CONFERENCE

The Arts and the Portuguese Colonial Experience

Friday, 24 March

3.00 - 5.30

Introductory remarks

A Globalized World
Jonathan Brown, Institute of Fine Arts, chair

Rafael Moreira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, keynote speaker
From Brazil to Japan: Portuguese colonial art around the world (1415-1820)

Gauvin Bailey, Clark University
The influence of Asian art in the Spanish and Portuguese Americas:
Acapulco, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro

Saturday, 25 March

10.00 - 12.30

The Asian World
Jonathan Spence, Yale University, chair

Paulo Varela Gomes, Universidade Coimbra
Franciscan architecture in Mandapeshwar / Mount Poinsur (Salsete, Bombay -
India)

Barbara Karl, University of Innsbruck
The ideal ruler - The iconography of a specific group of “colchas” from Bengal

Francisco Vizeu Pinheiro, University of Tokyo
The role of Iberian institutions in the formation and development of Macao

Alexandra Curvelo, Centro de História de Além-Mar
Nanban art: an overview

2.30 - 5.00

The Atlantic World
Edward Sullivan, Institute of Fine Arts, chair

Peter Mark, Wesleyan University
Playing both black and white: chess, history and art history

Myriam Ribeiro, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Portuguese sculptors and woodcarvers in eighteenth-century Minas Gerais

Luís Moura Sobral, University of Montreal
António Simões Ribeiro (act. 1700-1755) and the art of painting in
Salvador, Bahia

Nuno Senos, Institute of Fine Arts
Art and race in Franciscan Brazil

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Institute of Fine Arts
New York University
The James B. Duke House
1 East 78th Street
New York, New York 10021

http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/ifa/students/portuguese.htm