Doctoral Research Fellow associated with the project "Dressing the Saints"

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Doctoral Research Fellow associated with the project "Dressing the Saints"

How would you dress a saint in art? Working within a historically unparalleled amalgam of an interconnected world and regional religious- and legal reforms, Netherlandish artists active at the dawn of the ʻfirst globalisationʼ were among the first to create consummate solutions to this question. Re-conceptualizing hermeneutical geographies they ordered anew the ever-expanding ʻworld of thingsʼ into their religious scenes. The recently funded project "Dressing the Saints : Gendering and Othering in Netherlandish Art at the Dawn of a Globalized World" (DRESS) provides a novel research agenda for art history and material culture studies, working from the hypothesis that before the conception of non-European lands as an ʻa... (text continues in original)

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