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Ananda Cohen-Aponte

Ananda Cohen-Aponte is Associate Professor of History of Art who specializes in the visual culture of pre-Hispanic and colonial Latin America. Her research centers on issues of racial formation, cross-cultural exchange, historicity, and coloniality in the visual and material culture of the Andes.Her research also attends to legacies of colonialism in contemporary Latinx art. She is author ofHeaven, Hell, and Everything in Between: Murals of the Colonial Andes (University of Texas Press, 2016), which examines the intersections between art, politics, religion, and society in mural paintings located in colonial churches across the southern Andes. Cohen-Aponte served as editor and primary author of the book Pintura colonial cusqueña: el esplendor del arte en los Andes/Paintings of Colonial Cusco: Artistic Splendor in the Andes, published as separate Spanish and English-language editions by Haynanka Ediciones in 2015.

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Poster, background enamel design on gold, all text in body of article

Nature Conquers Nature 4.19.22

The Pulse of Art History Lecture, "Nature Conquers Nature: Byzantine Enamel as 'Technē-morphic' Alchemy" Shannon Steiner April 19, 2022, 4:45pm Goldwin Smith Hall G22, reception to follow

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Judith Eleanor Bernstock


Retired 2017

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Benjamin Anderson

Benjamin Anderson, associate professor of the history of art and classics, studies the visual and material cultures of the eastern Mediterranean and adjacent landmasses, with a particular focus on late antique and Byzantine art and architecture. His first book,Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art(Yale University Press, 2017), addressed the reception of Greco-Roman astronomical imagery in the Byzantine, Frankish, and Islamic states. It received the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award from the College Art Association (2018), and the Karen Gould Prize in Art History from the Medieval Academy of America (2020). He is currently writing The Oracles of Leo: From Byzantium to the Baroque, a study of the Byzantine tradition of oracular images and its reception in early modern Europe.He also publishes regularly on the history of archaeology and the urban history of Constantinople.

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Annetta Alexandridis

Annetta Alexandridis studies the art and archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome with a particular interest in gender studies, animal studies, and the media of archaeology. Her first book researched how the women of the Roman Imperial families from Livia to Julia Domna (late 1st century BCE to early 3rd century CE) were represented in public (Die Frauen des römischen Kaiserhauses. Eine Untersuchung ihrer bildlichen Darstellung von Livia bis Iulia Domna; von Zabern, 2004). It argues that their imagery as promoted in statues, coins, inscriptions, honorary titles, and funerary orations helped establish the political and public role of these women – a function the political system itself (a monarchy staged as a republic) did not provide.

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An African man's head with a ray-like collar above the face of a roaring lion with other artwork from the Sculpture Shoppe exhibition in the background.

Contemporary and ancient art exhibit enlivens Ithaca Mall

The “Sculpture Shoppe” exhibition displays selections from Cornell’s plaster cast collection of Greco-Roman sculptures alongside – and sometimes within – contemporary artists’ responses to cast culture and classical art.

Kremnitzer

Kathryn Kremnitzer, '13, Vice President, Director, and Head of Sale for 19th-Century European Paintings, Sotheby's, New York

Kathryn Kremnitzer joined Sotheby’s in June 2021. She earned her BA from Cornell in History of Art in 2013 and a PhD at Columbia University in 2020 with a dissertation that explored how Édouard Manet worked across media in the 1860s. She was previously Research Associate in the Painting and Sculpture of Europe department at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she worked on Manet and Modern Beauty (2019), Monet and Chicago (2020), and Cezanne (2022), and contributed to the online scholarly catalogue of Manet’s works in the collection. As a Curatorial Assistant at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, she worked on Madame Cézanne (2014) and Tiepolo Caricatures from the Robert Lehman Collection (2014). She specializes in 19th century European painting, particularly French, and works on paper.

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