Examine the influence of end-times Christian imagery on early modern Ibero-American art and how it intertwined with colonial violence in the Andes.

In 1606, the French engraver Philippe Thomassin produced a monumental interpretation of The Last Judgment. Bursting with vivid imagery of judgment and death and prophetic visions of the world’s end, Thomassin’s prints circulated widely throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, spreading depictions of doomsday throughout Europe and beyond. Ianick Takaes, a Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellow at The New York Public Library, will trace how this visual language traveled to Spanish and Portuguese communities across the Americas. His focus is on Bolivian artist José López de los Ríos’s 1684 paintings of The Four Last Things, which cast colonization as spiritual triumph. Takaes considers how apocalyptic imagery in the Andes both obscured genocide and reinforced ideologies of salvation, empire, and dominion.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Ianick Takaes is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History and Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University, specializing in early modern artistic connections between Europe and the Iberian Americas, early twentieth-century art historiography, and aesthetics. In addition to his M.A. and M.Phil from Columbia, he holds a B.A. in Visual Arts and an M.A. in History of Art from the State University of Campinas, Brazil, where he translated into Portuguese and analyzed Edgar Wind’s Art and Anarchy for his Master’s thesis. His research has been supported by prestigious fellowships, such as the NYPL Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellowship. Takaes has published articles in international journals such as the Journal of Art Historiography, Figura, and Engramma.

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