Sessions Sponsored by the Italian Art Society

Session Title: Italianità diversa: Diversity and Multiculturalism in Italian Art,
Gramercy A/West, 2nd floor
Friday, February 17, 2017, 1:30-3:00pm
Organizer and Chair: Jennifer Griffiths, American University of Rome and Iowa State University of Rome
Speakers/Papers:
Paul Kaplan, Purchase College, State University of New York, "Black African Winds in Italian Images, 1490–1632"
Letha Ch’ien, University of California, Davis, "A Foreign Local: Forming Early Modern Venetian Identity via Saint Mark"
Wendy Ligon Smith, Independent Scholar, "The Designs of Fortuny through the Lens of Venetian Renaissance Fabric "