Professor Paul Kaplan Presents at the CMRS, UCLA

Paul Kaplan, professor of art history, will present at the conference, “Bodies and Maps: Personification of the Continents” taking place January 12-13, 2018, at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) at the University of California, Los Angeles.

The two-day event explores the personification of continents depicted in various media in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe, and how human representations in this tradition have changed over time.

As a renowned scholar in Renaissance art and representations of people of color in both European and American art, Professor Kaplan will be giving a presentation titled “Magi, Winds, Continents: Dark Skin and Territorial Embodiment in Early Modern Images,” in which he will examine this cultural phenomenon from an art historian’s perspective.

Visit the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies online for details.

January 12-13, 2018 | UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies