“Discovering” Brazil in Paris: V. Meirelles’s First Mass (1861)

Speaker Name: Dr. Todd Porterfield
Speaker’s Website: website
University or Organization: New York University, Gallatin School

Please join us for a keynote lecture to honor the retirement of Dr. Alisa Luxenberg, Professor of 18th and 19th-century Art. 

Dr. Todd Porterfield is a scholar of nineteenth-century European art, imperialism, and globalization, whose publications include European, North American, and Middle Eastern research on museums; representations of history; critical histories of art history; Impressionism; caricature; Orientalism; and legacies of imperialism in contemporary art. He is curator of the exhibition, Love Bites: Caricatures by James Gillray (Ashmolean Museum, 2015); editor of The Efflorescence of Caricature, 1759-1838 (University of Montreal, 2012); and author of The Allure of Empire: Art in the Service of French Imperialism, 1798-1836 (Princeton, 1998); and Staging Empire: Napoleon, Ingres, and David with Susan Siegfried (Penn State, 2008). This talk will tell the story of 19th-century Brazilian artist, Victor Meirelles, whose training under salon masters of the French Academy led him to create the first history painting to depict Portuguese colonization in Brazil.

A 1/2-day symposium to honor Professor Luxenberg will continue on Friday 4/22 from 9:30am–12:30pm, also in Room S150. https://art.uga.edu/events/alumni-scholars-symposium-honor-professor-alisa-luxenbergs-retirement