Mellon Decade Fellow Stephanie Porras presents "Maerten de Vos and the Renaissance In-between."

Maerten de Vos was a sixteenth-century Flemish artist who worked in Italy, a double convert (to Lutheranism before returning to Catholicism), and an export artist whose work could be found across Europe, South-East Asia, and the Americas by the time of his death. As a figure "in-between" he is largely absent from Renaissance art history. This lecture questions his lacuna and de Vos's place within the so-called global Renaissance.

Stephanie Porras is assistant professor of art history in the Newcomb Art Department at Tulane University. Her research focuses on Northern European art of the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries, as well as the global circulation of early modern prints. She is the author of Pieter Bruegel's Historical Imagination (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016) and coeditor of The Young Dürer: Drawing the Figure (Courtauld institute of Art, London, 2013). At the Clark, she will write on an understudied yet ubiquitous early modern artist — Maerten de Vos — considering how the impact of the artist's travels, the wars of religion and the dawn of globalization impacted the formation of artistic and cultural identity in the later Renaissance.