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Shawon Kinew

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Shawon Kinew is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. She is an art historian of early modern Southern Europe with a specialization in the art and theory of seventeenth-century Rome.

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Professor Shawon Kinew speaks to the Harvard Gazette

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New HAA faculty member, Shawon Kinew's interview with the Harvard Gazette

Two interpretative projects at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum by Professor Shawon Kinew

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“When I wrote for the interpretive project ‘Reconsidering Titian,’ I tried to capture the many different questions that arise for me when I look at Titian’s Rape of Europa. As an art historian and a professor, I find myself relaying facts of its...

"Michelangelo and other Renaissance and Baroque Masters: Essays by Leo Steinberg", featuring Shawon Kinew

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More details + register here. To celebrate Leo Steinberg’s essays published by the University of Chicago Press, art historians Christian Kleinbub, Shawon Kinew, Maria Loh, and Sheila Schwartz join Rail Consulting Editor Alexander Nagel for a conversation...

Harvard Gazette: Art and the history of indigenous America - Shawon Kinew's First Year Seminar Featured

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A first-year seminar by Assistant Professor Shawon Kinew has been the focus of a feature in the Havard Gazette. The seminar focuses on the 19th century oil portraits of 25 Native leaders captured in an era of forced relocation. The course titled “The...

Shawon Kinew Selected as 2020-21 Radcliffe Institute Fellow

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Shawon Kinew has been named a 2020–2021 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, joining an impressive class whose work will span the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and arts. As the 2020–2021 Shutzer Assistant...

Harvard Gazette, "Another long-overdue reckoning for America" - an interview with Professor Shawon Kinew

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Professor Shawon Kinew was interviewed by the Harvard Gazette on the subject of the recent Supreme Court ruling affirming that a large portion of eastern Oklahoma remains Native American Lands, specifically, the land of the Muskogee (Creek) Nation, and...

Hammer Art History Lecture: St. Paul Among the Snakes: A Maltese Artist Goes Home, c. 1660

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Speaker: Professor Shawon Kinew At the end of the 1650s, Melchiorre Cafà, a Maltese sculptor, was newly established in Rome. Rome was the most significant site for sculptural production in Europe at that time. It was also a Golden Age of sculpture as...

HAA 262k

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Bernini: Roman Baroque Sculpture and Spirit Shawon Kinew Thursday 3:00 – 5:45pm This graduate seminar investigates Gian Lorenzo Bernini and his sculpture within the context of Seicento art theory, aesthetics and his own spiritual practice. We will study...

HAA 267K - Old Masters in a ‘New’ World

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Shawon Kinew As the territory of early modern European studies continues to expand, mimicking the colonization of the period under study, art historians inevitably become explorers of terra incognita claiming “marvelous possessions.” Now is an ideal...

HAA 267K - Old Masters in a New World

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Shawon Kinew Wednesday, 3:00pm - 5:45pm As the territory of early modern European studies continues to expand, mimicking the colonization of the period under study, art historians inevitably become explorers of terra incognita claiming “marvelous...

HAA 164n

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The Motif in Renaissance and Baroque Art of the Italian Peninsula Shawon Kinew Monday 3-5:45pm This course studies the invention, permutations and transformations of visual motifs in the art of Renaissance and Baroque Italy, 1400-1700. The mirror, the...