Joe Albanese (PhD 2024) is assistant professor of Art & Art History at DePauw University. Joe specializes in the visual cultures of viceregal Peru. His first book examines the relationship between different artistic media in that viceroyalty. This project argues that printed and painted simulated statues highlight the importance of sculpture as a divine artistic medium, undermining traditional European discourses about the nobility of the art of painting. His work has been supported by the Renaissance Society of America and the Fulbright Foundation and he has held research affiliations at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) and the Escuela de Estudios Hispanoamericanos in Seville, Spain. Before attending UC Berkeley for his PhD, Joe earned an MA in Early Netherlandish Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, and a Double BA (triple major) in Art History, History, and Spanish Literature at The George Washington University.
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