Luster & Sheen: Baroque Materialities

Luster & Sheen is organized by Dr. Claudia Swan, and sponsored by the Department of Art History and Archaeology. This event is open to the public, but RSVPs are strongly encouraged so that we can plan accordingly. Please RSVP here: https://forms.gle/Epmt8DHHvaRbWVus9

Schedule for Luster & Sheen

Claudia Swan
Mark S. Weil Professor of Art History & Archaeology, WashU
Opening Remarks: Notes on An Early Modern Aesthetics of Iridescence

Katie DiDomenico
PhD candidate, Department of Art History & Archaeology, WashU
“A Chinese Famille Noire Figure of an Enslaved African”

Samuel Luterbacher
Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Art History, Occidental College
“Smooth, Rich, and Pleasing to the Eye: Seamless Facture in the Iberian Indo-Pacific”

Wenjie Su
PhD candidate, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
Samuel H. Kress Fellow, CASVA
“A Silvery Mirage: James Cox’s Swan Automaton”

12:00-1:00 PM Lunch

Olivia Dill
PhD candidate, Department of Art History, Northwestern University
Curatorial Fellow, The Morgan Library
“Maria Sibylla Merian and Lantern Flies’ Apocryphal Sheen”

Ana Howie
Assistant Professor, Department of History of Art & Visual Studies, Cornell University
“Consumers of Light: Women, Portraiture, and Material Luminosity in Early Modern Genoa”

Weixun Qu
PhD candidate, Department of Art History & Archaeology, WashU
“A Dutch Amerasian Cabinet in the Walters Art Museum”

Cynthia Kok
Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts and Design, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
“Mother-of-Pearl and Metamorphosis: Dirck van Rijswijck’s Lively Art”

4:00 PM  Reception