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      • Documentary Evidence
      • Gallery
  • Teaching
    • Visual Dynamics
    • History of Art I
    • History of Art II
    • History of Photography
    • Museum Ethics & Issues
    • Theory & Methods
    • Native American Art >
      • About
      • Virtual Tour
      • Collaboration
    • Latin American Art
  • Research
    • Textiles >
      • Chintz
      • Woven Patterns
      • Embroidery
    • Metalwork >
      • Utilitarian Items
      • Jewelry
    • Furniture >
      • Beds
      • Storage
      • Seating
      • Transportation
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      • Porcelain
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Smarthistory.org Resources

Smarthistory.org is the largest free online art history resource with thousands of essays and videos made for high school and college students. I am a contributing editor for material related to art and architecture in colonial Brazil and the rest of the Portuguese empire in the early modern period (c.1450-1800). 

"Portuguese Contacts and Exchanges" chapter
in Reframing Art History

Reframing Art History ​is an open-access, fully online art history textbook geared toward high school and undergraduate audiences. The textbook is a collaboration between over 40 scholars and features dozens of chapters that depart from the Eurocentric canon-focused structure of traditional textbooks. 

My chapter explores art and architecture created as a result of Portuguese maritime travel c. 1400-1800.
Portuguese Contacts and Exchanges

The following are essays that I have contributed to Smarthistory.org. Other scholars have also created additional essays and videos related to art in the Portuguese empire. If you are an educator and would like to see an essay on a particular artwork or topic, please contact me with your suggestions. 
Introduction to Colonial Brazil
Cantino Planisphere
Carlos Julião, watercolor manuscript
Albert Eckhout, Series of eight figures
Church of São Francisco de Assis, Ouro Preto, Brazil
Sanctuary of Bom Jesus de Matosinhos of Congonhas do Campo
Mestre Valentim, Passeio Publico, Rio de Janeiro
Josefa de Óbidos, Christ Child Salvator Mundi
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