Going Viral in the Renaissance featuring Stephanie Porras

This event occurred on Dec 2, 2023.
What do today's TikTok dances and Renaissance prints have in common? In this talk, Stephanie Porras describes how early modern prints invited repetition and emulation, taking advantage of new media technologies and emerging global infrastructures long before the invention of the Internet. Examining how prints and other artworks were used as models by artists working across the early modern world, Porras reconstructs how such images were copied and, in doing so, challenges assumptions about artistic invention in Renaissance art.
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