Visual Representations of Plant Knowledge in Pre-Columbian, Early Colonial, and Early Modern European Art

Time: 02/06/2016, 2:30 PM—5:00 PM
Location: Delaware Suite A, Lobby Level

Chair: Helen Ellis, Getty Research Institute

Transforming a Common Grass into Corn: A Scientific Achievement Recorded in Aztec Art
Helen Ellis, Getty Research Institute

The Imagery of Two Sacred Plants in Ancient Central and South American Art
Rebecca R. Stone, Emory University

The Loggia as Botanical Garden: The Painted Pergola and Plant Studies in Early Modern Rome
Natsumi Nonaka, University of Texas at Austin

Remedies of the Machis: Mapping Early Modern Botanies in Alonso de Ovalle’s Tabula Geographica Regni Chile (1646)
Catherine E. Burdick, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile