Freshman class

Artistic encounters

Gauvin Alexander Bailey, associate professor of theology

Ph.D., Harvard University

Specialization: art and religion

Representative publication: The Art of Colonial Latin America, 1492-1820 (Phaidon Press Limited, 2004)

After receiving my Ph.D. in fine art history, I taught undergraduate and graduate students in art history at Clark University, Boston University, and Boston College. During this time I also curated and co–curated museum exhibitions on Latin American, Asian, and Italian Renaissance and Baroque art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, the Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon, the Musée des Beaux–Arts de Caen, the Worcester Art Museum, and the McMullen Museum, among others.

My research focuses on cross–cultural artistic hybridization and the intersection of art and religion in colonial Latin America, Asia, and in Baroque Europe where the Jesuits played an important role. Three of my books deal with artistic encounters in Latin America and Asia and one looks at the Jesuits' art policy in Rome between 1565 and 1610, the first years of the order's existence.