Elsje van Kessel - Objects and Empire on the Portuguese India Run: Surviving Shipwreck

Elsje van Kessel is Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of St Andrews. She is specialised in western European art in a global context during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Her publications include the book The Lives of Paintings: Presence, Agency and Likeness in Venetian Art of the Sixteenth Century (De Gruyter, 2017). She is currently working on a monograph focusing on the oceanic journey of early modern art objects, especially those traveling within the Portuguese maritime empire.