Santiago Olábarri Oriol
Phd Student, History of Art and Architecture
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.