Maria Berbara
Maria Berbara holds a PhD from the University of Hamburg and has taught Art History at UERJ since 2005. She specialized in Italian and Iberian art produced between the 15th and 17th centuries, as well as in cultural history, globalism in the First Modern Period and intellectual exchanges around the Atlantic world. 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 Atlantic world during the first modernity. Her individual and collective research projects were funded by the Getty Foundation, Villa I Tatti, DAAD/Germany, INHA/Paris, Fapesp, Faperj, CNPq and Capes. She is a proscientist and a CNPq productivity fellow.
Research Project
Título
Artistic and cultural circulation between Italy, the Iberian Peninsula and the Americas during the early modern period
Area of Inquiry and Research
Art and Reception
Description
The main goals of this project are the investigation of the reception of the classical tradition during the first modern period, as well as the transit of artistic languages between Italy, the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America in this period. I supervise theses and dissertations in the following fields: edition and translation, into Portuguese, of fundamental sources of historical-artistic literature produced between the 15th and 17th centuries; research on the classical tradition, and investigations that consider the circulation of artistic languages, speeches, books and art objects between different areas of the globe. Themes of more specific interest are the representation of sacrifice in the Atlantic world during early modernity; the cultural history of pandemics, with an emphasis on the American continent during the 16th and 17th centuries; Antarctic France and its aftermath; the concept of empire and its translations, and the global image of the Tupinamba.