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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