Empires, Environments, Objects

Fernando Loffredo | Principal Investigator

fernando.loffredo@stonybrook.edu

Fernando Loffredo is Assistant Professor of Early Modern Mediterranean and Colonial Visual Culture in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and Visiting Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima. His primary research interests are trans-Mediterranean artistic relations, sculpture and the urban space, and the dialogues between art and poetry in the early modern world, with a particular focus on the territories under Spanish rule across the globe. He was the Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow 2015-2017 at CASVA (National Gallery of Art, Washington DC), and Harvard’s I Tatti/Museo Nacional del Prado Inaugural Fellow 2020-2021. Within the network of the Max-Planck Institutes, Professor Loffredo was the recipient of postdoctoral fellowships granted by the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz and the Bibliotheca Hertziana.

Cécile Michaud | Affiliated Faculty and Coordinator at the PUCP

cmichaud@pucp.edu.pe

Cécile Michaud is Associate Professor and Director of the MA in History of Art and Curatorial Studies at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima. Her research interests focus on the material and visual culture of the Viceroyalty of Peru between the 16th and 18th century, the correlation between text and image, and the relationship between religious literature (such as sermons, sacred poetry, and hagiography) and the work of art. She earned a PhD from the Université de Strasbourg (2003) with a dissertation subsequently published under the title Johann Heinrich Schönfeld. Un peintre allemand du XVII siècle en Italie (Munich: Martin Meidenbauer Verlag, 2006).  She is co-author or co-editor of the following books; De Amberes al Cusco: El grabado europeo como fuente del arte virreinal. Colección Barbosa Stern (Lima: Impulso Editorial, 2009); Escritura e imagen en Hispanoamérica. De la crónica ilustrada al cómic (Lima: Fondo Editorial PUCP, 2015); Arte antes de la historia. Para una historia del arte andino antiguo (Lima, Fondo Editorial PUCP, 2020). Professor Michaud was the recipient of a DAAD doctoral fellowship (1999-2000, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität) and KAAD Postdoctoral Fellowship (Kunsthistorisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, 2017).

Lucía Querejazu Escobari | Affiliated Faculty, PUCP

lquerejazu@pucp.edu.pe

Lucía Querejazu Escobari is assistant professor in the History Department at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima. She is Bolivian historian specializing in colonial Andean painting, particularly its significance within Andean space and spirituality. She completed her Ph.D. in History at the University of Buenos Aires in 2021 with the dissertation titled El programa iconográfico de Caquiaviri como una herramienta contra las idolatrías 1650-1750. Prior to her current position, she was curator (2019-2020) and later director (2020-2021) of the National Museum of Art in La Paz, Bolivia, and she has a postdoctoral position within the ERC-funded project Global Economies of Salvation: Art and the Negotiation of Sanctity at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. She has authored several works, including an essay in The Art of Painting in Colonial Bolivia (2017), and was the editor of the exhibition catalogue Dios y la Máquina: Serialidad y singularidad en la pintura andina colonial (2020).

Andrea Giuliana Tejada Farfán | Affiliated Research Assistant and Doctoral Student, PUCP

andrea.tejada@pucp.edu.pe  

Andrea Giuliana Tejada Farfán earned an MA in History of Art and Curatorial Studies at the PUCP and is currently a PhD student in History at the same university. Her reserach focuses on Viceregal Art in Peru, with a particular interest in the Jesuit Italian painter Bernardo Bitti and his workshop in the context of Andean visual culture. She was an international student at the Universidad Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, and she got grants Fundación Carl y Marilynn Thoma and the PUCP. She also teaches at the Facultad de Educación y Humanidades at the Universidad Católica Sedes Sapientiae, Lima.

José Luis Gonzales Navarro / Affiliated Assistant to the Principal Investigator and MA Student, PUCP

jgonzalesn@pucp.edu.pe

José Luis Gonzales Navarro is a student of the MA in History of Art and Curatorial Studies at the PUCP. His research interests revolve around the Viceroyalty of Peru, Church History, and the Society of Jesus. He is the recipient of a fellowship of the KAAD-PUCP Program and received research awards, such as the II Concurso para Jóvenes Investigadores. Mesas de Osma II. Conferencias Magistrales sobre Arte Colonial (2019). He is an historian expert in paleography and participated in editorial projects such as Colección Arte y Tesoros del Perú (Banco de Crédito del Perú) in collaboration with Ramón Mujica Pinilla and Luis Eduardo Wuffarden. Among his publications, the book Nuestra Señora de la O: Congregación de Seglares en San Pedro de Lima (Lima, 2018), articles and book chapters about colonial art and heritage.

Patricia Carolina Mendoza Mori | Affiliated Administrative Assistant and MA Student, PUCP

patricia.mendozam@pucp.edu.pe

Patricia Carolina Mendoza Mori is a graduate student of the MA in History of Art and Curatorial Studies at the PUCP. She earned a degree in Philosophy at the Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya (UARM), and she has an extensive experience as academic coordinator and administrative assistant at the PUCP. Her research interests are related to contemporary art, education, and gender studies. She is currently working on a MA thesis about the Peruvian artist and activist Claudia Coca, with a particular focus on themes of mestizaje, decolonial discourse, and feminism.