Education
- Ph.D., Harvard University
- M.A., Courtauld Institute
- B.A., Harvard University
Biography
Dr. Barnaby Nygren teaches a range of courses on the Renaissance, the history of prints, and colonial Latin America. His publications address a similarly wide range of concerns including: scientific perspective, humor, the work of Michelangelo, domestic and monastic decoration in New Spain, and the representation of corn in early sixteenth-century Italian art. He has been published in Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, Studies in Iconography, Oxford Art Journal, Artibus et historiae, Word and Image, and other journals and edited volumes.
Teaching Areas
- Italian and Northern Renaissance art
- Michelangelo
- Albrecht Durer
- Colonial Latin America
- History of prints
- History of posters
Research Interests
- Michelangelo
- Early colonial Latin American art
- Scientific perspective