# Santiago Olábarri Oriol Early Modern Hispanic World ![Santiago Oriol](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/2025-08/IMG_2028_0.jpg?itok=7YQjk_JM) email Santiago studies early modern art and visual culture in the Hispanic world with a dual focus on religious images—particularly as records and as agents in processes of conversion—and on the intersection of knowledge and art production in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His current research examines visual paradoxes, or depictions of impossible things, as a site of tension between religious and scientific thought. He previously studied philosophy and the humanities at Bard College Berlin, UNED, and the University of Heidelberg, and holds an M.A. in History of Art and Archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, where he was supported by a Fulbright scholarship. His writing will soon appear in *The Edinburgh Companion to the Spanish Civil War and Visual Culture* (edited by Eugenia Afinoguénova, Silvina Schammah Gesser, and Robert Lubar Messeri; 2026) and in *Tales of an Epoch*, the unpublished memoir of former HAA Director Paul J. Sachs, edited by Felipe Pereda (2025). Santiago has held research or internship positions at Factum Foundation, the IFA, NYU, Harvard University–MFA Boston, and the Musée du Louvre. - ## People [Graduate Students](/people/graduate) - ## G-Year [G2](/year-graduate-study-g-year/g2)