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Patricia Zalamea

Patricia Zalamea

Humanities Scholarship
(Visual Arts-Scholarship) – Associate Professor of Art History, Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá – Colombia
What did it mean to be a humanist in colonial spaces of the Spanish and Portuguese Empires? This comparative and transregional study of humanist circles in the Andean world (Tunja, Cusco, Lima), Chile, and Brazil, analyzes the paradoxes of humanist identities in conflicted spaces of hybridity. Despite important differences, these case studies of interrelated artistic and literary productions evidence a cosmopolitan world view in their reinterpretations of the Classics in an American context.