Documentary
A film by
FELIPE PEREDA
LIUJIYI ZUO
ICEY LIN
and
The Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
With Special Thanks to:
Harvard Art Museums
Sarah Ganz Blythe, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director
Jennifer Aubin, Assistant Director of Media Relations
Narayan Khandekar, Director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies and Senior Conservation Scientist
Megan Schwenke, Senior Archivist/Records Manager, Head of the Harvard University Archives
Francesca Bewer, Research Curator, Conservation and Technical Study Programs, Director of Summer Institute for Technical Studies in Art
Katherine Eremin, Patricia Cornwell Senior Conservation Scientist
Georgina Rayner, Conservation Scientist
Kate Smith, Senior Conservator of Paintings and Head of Paintings Lab
Angela Chang, Senior Conservator of Objects and Sculpture, Head of Objects Lab, and Assistant Director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies
Saffie Patel, Richard I. Shader Fellow in Paintings Conservation
Yi Bin Liang, Conservation Technician
Adam Baker, Senior Conservation Technician
Tatiana Cole, Conservator of Photographs
Valeria Pesce, Craigen W. Bowen Paper Conservation Fellow
Kaela Nurmi, Objects Conservation Fellow
Harvard Fine Arts Library
Shalimar Fojas White, Herman and Joan Suit Librarian, Harvard Fine Arts Library
Joanne Bloom, Photographic Resources Librarian
Jessica Evans Brady, Research & Collections Librarian
Nanni Deng, Asian Art Bibliographer
Harvard Department of History of Art and Architecture
Emily Ware, Director of Administration and Operations
Marcus Mayo, Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Hilary Field, Administrative Coordinator
Gomez, IT Support Associate
Joseph Koerner, Department Chair, Thomas Professor of the History of Art and Architecture
Suzanne Preston Blier, Allen Whitehill Clowes Chair of Fine Arts and of African and African American Studies
Thomas B.F. Cummins, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art
Patricio del Real, Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Seth Estrin, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Cécile Fromont, Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Africa, Latin America, and the Early Modern Atlantic
Eurydice Georganteli, Lecturer on Art History and Numismatics
Maria Gough, Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. Professor of Modern Art
Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Kuno Francke Professor of German Art & Culture
Ioli Kalavrezou, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine Art
Robin Kelsey, Shirley Carter Burden Professor of Photography
Vishal Khandelwal, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Jinah Kim, George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art and Professor of South Asian Studies
Shawon Kinew, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts
Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Professor of History of Art and Architecture and of Art, Film, and Visual Studies
Sarah Lewis, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Associate Professor of African and African American Studies
Yukio Lippit, Jeffrey T. Chambers and Andrea Okamura Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Christina Maranci, Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies
Melissa McCormick, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Japanese Art and Culture
Gülru Necipoğlu, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture
Alina Payne, Paul E. Geier Director of Villa I Tatti, Alexander P. Misheff Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Felipe Pereda, Director of Graduate Studies, Fernando Zóbel de Ayala Professor of Spanish Art
Jennifer Roberts, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Drew Gilpin Faust Professor of the Humanities
David Roxburgh, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History
Eugene Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art
Byron Otis (Voiceover), Ph.D. Student
Nicanor Albornoz, Ph.D. Student
Diego Atehortúa, Ph.D. Student
Lauren Ehrmann, Ph.D. Student
Icey Lin, Ph.D. Student
Neesha Mewada, Ph.D. Student
Noah Michaud, Ph.D. Student
Anthony Ortega, Ph.D. Student
Hiroki Takezaki, Ph.D. Student
Luci Williams, Ph.D. Student
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