Activity Type:
Lecture
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Presenter:
Jessica Keating (Southern California)
Date:
Thursday, March 7, 2013 - 16:00 to 17:30
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Location:
Room 202 Frick Fine Art
Contact Person:
Natalie Swabb
Contact Email:
njs21@pitt.edu
This paper considers how a seventeenth-century German Automaton featuring the Roman Goddess Diana atop a stag made its way to the court of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir (1569-1627), and it explores this object's social life outside of its putative home of the Holy Roman Empire.
UCIS Unit:
European Studies Center
Non-University Sponsors:
Department of History of Art and Architecture
World Regions:
Europe
International
South Asia
Western Europe