Barnes Foundation's video: The 26th Annual Graduate Student Symposium on the History of Art: Keynote Lecture

Keynote Lecture Thursday, February 25 - At the Butterfly House: Nahua Ambassadors in the Ruins of Rome, 1529 Byron Hamann, Felix Gilbert Member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ In April 1529, four Nahua ambassadors from central Mexico arrived in Rome for an audience with the pope. They received gifts of clothes and jewelry and were granted four papal bulls in support of specific churches in their homeland. But it was a tumultuous time to visit the Vatican. Their journey took place eight years after the Spanish conquest of Mexico-Tenochtitlán and only two years after the equally devastating Sack of Rome by Protestant soldiers. This talk traces how witnesses of Tenochtitlán's destruction traveled across the Atlantic and Iberia into central Italy to encounter the ruins of another sacred city. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Learn more on our website + follow us on social media at the links below! - Website: https://www.barnesfoundation.org - Facebook: https://bit.ly/2TFa7jN - Instagram: https://bit.ly/3x8108V - Twitter: https://bit.ly/3BNsRPe - LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3eZcMfu - TikTok: https://bit.ly/3y4MLmu - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Take a class! Art education is at the core of our mission at the Barnes Foundation. New online and on-site classes enrolling monthly. Learn more and register: https://bit.ly/3zIVfAc - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - About The Barnes Foundation: The mission of the Barnes is to promote the advancement of education and the appreciation of the fine arts and horticulture. Our founder, Dr. Albert C. Barnes, believed that art had the power to improve minds and transform lives. Our diverse educational programs are based on his teachings and one-of-a-kind collections. Philadelphia art collector, Albert C. Barnes (1872–1951), chartered the Barnes Foundation in 1922 to teach people from all walks of life how to look at art. Over three decades, he collected some of the world’s most important impressionist, post-impressionist, and modern paintings, including works by Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse, and Picasso. He displayed them alongside African masks, native American jewelry, Greek antiquities, and decorative metalwork.