Maria Berbara - Extracting Wood, Extracting Life: Brazilwood and the Trope of Extreme Longevity in Early Modern European Colonial Maps

Maria Berbara is Professor of Art History at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. She is a specialist in Italian and Iberian art produced between the 15th and 17th centuries. Her publications include the edited volumes Portuguese Humanism and the Republic of Letters (Brill, 2012) and Sacrifice and Conversion in the Early Modern Atlantic World (Officina Libraria, 2022). She is currently researching the history of Antarctic France, the global image of the Tupinambá, and the relationship between art, diseases and conversion processes in the early modern Atlantic.