# Santiago Olábarri Oriol Phd Student, History of Art and Architecture ![Santiago Olábarri Oriol](/sites/g/files/omnuum9471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/2025-09/Screenshot%202025-09-14%20at%205.09.56%E2%80%AFPM.png?itok=iTL6Vuxb) 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. - ## People: Department Search [History of Art and Architecture](/people-department-search/history-art-and-architecture) - ## People: Filtered Search [Graduate Students](/people-filtered-search/graduate-students) - ## People: Theme Search [History of Art and Architecture](/people-theme-search/art-history) - ## People: Region Search [Atlantic World](/people-region-search/atlantic-world) [Iberia](/people-region-search/iberia) [Pacific World](/people-region-search/pacific-world) [Spain](/people-region-search/spain) - ## People: Time Period Search [16th Century](/people-time-period-search/16th-century) [17th Century](/people-time-period-search/17th-century)