Monthly Archive: October 2022

Karel van Mander and his Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting by Walter S. Melion   Walter S. Melion is the Asa Griggs Professor of Art History. Written by the poet-painter Karel van Mander, who finished it in June 1603, the Grondt der edel, vry schilderconst (Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting) was the […]

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Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad by Dianne Marie Stewart Dianne Marie Stewart is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Religion and African American Studies. Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad is an expansive two-volume examination of social imaginaries concerning Obeah and Yoruba-Orisa from colonialism to the present. Analyzing their entangled histories and systems of […]

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