Jennifer Germann, Associate Professor of Art History, has been named a Regional Fellow for the Institute for European Studies at Cornell University and presented her most recent research at the Fellows Showcase on October 18. Jennifer Germann, Associate Professor of Art History, has been named a Regional Fellow for the Institute for European Studies at Cornell University and presented her most recent research at the Fellows Showcase on October 18.
Germann’s paper, “Peaches and Pearls: Materializing Metaphors of Race in Eighteenth-Century British Art,” analyzed the metaphor invoked by Jonathan Richardson comparing the representation of flesh in paintings to “a Pearl, and a ripe Peach” to understand how ideas about race were translated into a visual idioms through artistic practice. This paper is a part of her ongoing research into the Portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray, painted during the 1770s.
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