Negotiating Islamic Monuments in Early Modern Spain

Editor's note:

Friday, September 27 5pm, English Lounge (Room 4406) The Graduate Center CUNY

Reception to Follow 

September 17, 2019

A talk by Antoni Urquizar Herrera (UNED, Madrid) a Professor of Art History at UNED, Madrid. Among his publications are Admiration and Awe: Morisco Building and Identity Negotiations in Early Modern Spanish Historiography (Oxford, 2017), and Coleccionismo y nobleza. Signos de distincion social en la Andalucia del Renacimiento (Marcila Pons, 2007). He is PI of a research group on early modern art in Spain, and Chair of COST Action Islamic Legacy; Narratives of East, West, South, North of the Mediterranean (1350-1750), which brings together 103 researchers from 67 institutions and 31 European and Mediterranean countries.