Student Discussion Posts

Hannah Im | Discussion Post 8 During the lecture about Baroque art in China and Japan, I suddenly thought of Tumblr in the early 2010s. …

Learning about Art History in university, it is very clear to me that education is one of the best ways to expand one’s access and …

An artwork from this week’s lectures that really stood out to be was the Delftware tulip vase that was directly inspired from Chinese art. I …

I find this hanging scroll from Vietnam particularly interesting. Depicting the Christian theme of Last Judgement, the work follows Chinese painting techniques and integrates Buddhist …

Jan van der Heyden’s Room Corner with Curiosities is full of global influences. First, the objects depicted in the painting come from across the world. …

One example from the book is Giuseppe Castiglione’s “The Palace of Delights and Harmony” is an ink and color on silk scroll painting that was …

Claudia Swan’s lecture fascinated me with the different objects that Dutch high society found enviable and collectible, and the invisible labor it took to get …

Hannah Im | Discussion Post 8 Claudia Swan’s lecture on the Dutch Colonial Imaginary focused on depictions of Blackness in Dutch visual art and the …

While I was reading Introduction: Global art history and the Netherlands, I found that there is a painting with a black figure called Still Life …

Both Claudia Swan’s lecture, and the two readings we had for this week: “Going viral? Maerten de Vos’s ‘St. Michael the Archangel’” by Stephanie Porras …