Sixteenth Century
Dissertations in Progress by Subject, 2022

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de Jong, Emma C., "Personification, Zinnespelen, and the Allegorical Print: Modes of Discursive Engagement in Antwerp and Haarlem, 1550–1600" (Emory University, W. S. Melion, B. Ramakers)

Dursunoglu, Ikbal, "Imitators of God: The Moral Economy of Safavid and Mughal Painting, c. 1540–1640" (Boston University, E. Fetvaci)

Edwards, Jacqueline, "Painting Saints and Men: Art and Dress in El Greco’s Toledo, 1577–1614" (Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), A. Wunder, J. Ball)

Hogan, Dana V., "Expanding Worlds: Italian Women Artists and Cross-Cultural Encounters in Early Modernity" (Duke University, S.Galletti)

Janney, Elena, "The Drake Manuscript: Offshore Views of the Sixteenth-Century Caribbean" (Harvard University, J. Koerner, T. Cummins)

Kyorlenski, "The Inca Civil War Rediscovered: Architecture, Alliance Building, and Failure in the Terminal Days of the Inca Empire (1527–1532)" (University of California, Los Angeles, Georgi, S.Nair, C. Stanish)

Lee, Sunghoon, "Escala: Art, Scale, and Geographic Vastness in the Habsburg Spanish Empire" (University of Pennsylvania, D. Kim)

Margulis, Noah, "The Proof State of Art: Printmaking and the Graphic Arts in Rome, 1520–1550" (New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, A. Nagel)

Menéndez, Pereda, "Making and Experiencing Inca Sacredness: The Architecture of the Coricancha from the Inca Empire to the Viceroyalty of Peru" (University of California, Los Angeles, S. Nair)

Minden, Ariella, "In Dialogue: Medial Thinking in Bolognese Printmaking, 1500–1530" (University of Toronto, E. Levy)

Molina, Sarah, "The Poetics of Space: How Safavid Carpets Shaped the Early Modern Islamic World (1539-–672)" (Harvard University, D. Roxburgh, G. Necipoğlu)

Palazzolo, Valerie, "Millefleurs Gardens in the French Court of Ladies, ca. 1500" (University of Florida, E. Ross)

Qian, Wenyi, "The Artisanal Interface: The Art of Pietre Dure Tables in Early Modern Italy, 1550–1660" (University of Toronto, P. Sohm)

Rose, Shannah, "The Codex Ríos and the Reception of Mesoamerican Pictography in Early Modern Italy" (New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, A. Nagel, E.J. Sullivan)

Selch, Rebecca, "Memorializing the City: Illustrated Manuscripts of the Majālis al-ʿUshshāq and the Making of Genre in Early Modern Iran" (Harvard University, D. Roxburgh, G. Necipoğlu)

Wrightson, Erin, "Cartographies of Wood: Foraging in the visual archive in Colonial Brazil, 1500–1650" (University of Pennsylvania, S. Brisman)