Davide Domenici - Dominican Gifts of Mesoamerican Things in Early Modern Italy: Circulation and Reception
Wednesday 11 February (Week 4), 4:30pm
Rector's Drawing Room, Exeter College, Turl Street
Davide Domenici is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of History and Cultures at the University of Bologna. For the last twenty years, he has been studying the technology of Mesoamerican manuscript painting using non-invasive scientific methods. Together with Diana Magaloni and Alyce De Carteret, he curated the exhibition We Live in Painting: The Nature of Color in Mesoamerican Art (2024). His current research explores the cultural biographies of Mesoamerican artifacts brought to Italy in the 16th century.
