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ATHANOR XXXII FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY FOVRNEAY. COSMIQ..VE• Cosmic oven or Athanor from Annibal Barlet, Le Vray Cours de Physique, Paris, 1653. Cover: Unidentified Artist, Seville, Spain, The Virgin Mary Spinning, c. 1700, oil on canvas, 25 x 20 Inches. Denver Art Museum Collection: Gift of Engracia Freyer Dougherty for the Frank Barrows Freyer Collection, 1969.353. Image courtesy of the Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado. ATHANOR is indexed in Bibliography of the History of Art and ARTbibliographies Modern. Manuscript submission: Readers are invited to submit manuscripts for consideration. Authors should consult the Chicago Manual of Style for matters of form. The University assumes no responsibility for loss or damage of materials. Correspondence and manuscripts may be addressed to the Editor, ATHANOR, Department of Art History, 1019 William Johnston Building, 143 Honors Way, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-1233, or sent electronically to the Department of Art History. <[email protected]> To obtain copies: ATHANOR is published annually by the Department of Art History as a project of the Florida State Univer- sity Museum of Fine Arts Press. The issues are available for a suggested minimum donation of $10.00 to cover handling and contribute to subsequent issues; please request volumes through the Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-1140. The next Art History Graduate Symposium will be held in Fall 2014; symposium paper sessions cover a wide variety of topics. Students from universities nation-wide make presentations which frequently become published essays in ATHANOR. The format of the symposium includes a keynote address by major scholars. Since 1993 keynote speakers have been: Fred Licht, Boston University and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (1993); Gerald Ackerman, Pomona College (1994); Marcel Roethlisberger, University of Geneva (1995); Robert Farris Thompson, Yale University (1996); Oleg Grabar, Institute for Advanced Study (1997); Phyllis Bober, Bryn Mawr College (1998); Carol Duncan, Ramapo College (1999); Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov, University of Toronto at Mississauga (2000); Neil Stratford, ret. Keeper of Mediaeval Antiquities, British Museum (2001); Debra Pincus, Professor Emerita, University of British Columbia (2002); Jonathan Brown, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU (2003); David Summers, University of Virginia (2004); Thomas B.F. Cummins, Harvard University (2005), W.J.T. Mitchell, University of Chicago (2006); Michael Leja, University of Pennsylvania (2007); Pamela Sheingorn, City University of New York (2008); Alexander Nemerov, Yale University (2009); Richard Shiff, University of Texas at Austin (2010); John T. Paoletti, Wesleyan University (2011); Maria Gough, Harvard University (2012); and Magali Carrera, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth (2013). For details of date and for précis submission, please contact. Department of Art History, Florida State University, 1019 William Johnston Building, 143 Honors Way, Tallahassee, FL 32306-1233. <[email protected]> The essays contained in ATHANOR are articles by graduate students on topics of art history and humanities. As such, ATHANOR exists as a critical forum for the exchange of ideas and for contrast and comparison of theories and research and is disseminated for non-profit, educational purposes; annotated allusions, quotations, and visual materials are employed solely to that end. Athanor and the Museum Press In 1980 Professor François Bucher (University of Bern, Medieval Art) asked Allys Palladino-Craig (formerly of the variorum editions of The Collected Works of Stephen Crane, 10 vols., Fredson Bowers, Editor, University of Virginia Press) to take on the responsibility of general editor and publisher of the first volume of Athanor (1981). Professor Bucher served as faculty advisor until his retirement. During that time, Palladino-Craig won several grants for the publication, and in 1994 established the Mu- seum Press of the Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts with Julienne T. Mason as principal editorial assistant and graphic designer. From 1998-2002, Patricia Rose served as faculty advisor to this annual journal, which is a project of the Museum Press. From volume 26 to 27, Richard K. Emmerson, the Editor of Speculum from 1999 to 2006, served as co-editor of Athanor. Papers Copyright 2014 by the Authors Athanor XXXII Copyright 2014 by Florida State University / Tallahassee, FL 32306 All Rights Reserved L.C. #81-68863 F L O R I D A S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y Garnett S. Stokes Interim President Sally E. McRorie Interim Provost Peter Weishar Dean, College of Visual Arts, Theatre & Dance Graduate Faculty in the History of Art and Architecture: Art History Paul Niell, PhD Florida State University University of New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts Doron Bauer, PhD Assistant Professor Johns Hopkins University Spanish Colonial Arts and Architecture Allys Palladino-Craig, PhD Assistant Professor and Material Culture of the African Florida State University Early Medieval and Diaspora Director, Museum of Fine Arts Islamic Art and Architecture Editor-in-Chief, Museum Press Lauren S. Weingarden, PhD Museum Studies Karen A. Bearor, PhD University of Chicago University of Texas at Austin Professor Teri R. Abstein, PhD Associate Professor Modern Art and Architecture Florida State University Modern American Art and Theory Word and Image Studies Coordinator, Specialized Study History of Photography and Film in Museum Theory and Practice Art History Faculty Emeriti Museum Studies Michael D. Carrasco, PhD University of Texas at Austin J. L. Draper, PhD John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Associate Professor University of North Carolina Pre-Columbian Art and Architecture Steven High, Executive Director Paula Gerson, PhD MA, Williams College Jack Freiberg, PhD Columbia University MBA, Virginia Institute of Fine Arts, New York University Commonwealth University Professor Roald Nasgaard, PhD Museum Studies Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture Institute of Fine Arts, New York University David Berry, DPhil Adam Jolles, PhD Patricia Rose, PhD University of Oxford University of Chicago Columbia University Assistant Director, Curatorial Associate Professor and Chair and Academic Affairs Modern European Art and Classics Museum Studies the History of Photography Nancy de Grummond, PhD Virginia Brilliant, PhD Lynn Jones, PhD University of North Carolina Courtauld Institute of Art University of Illinois Professor University of London Associate Professor Etruscan, Roman, and Associate Curator of European Art Byzantine Art and Architecture Hellenistic Archaeology Museum Studies Stephanie Leitch, PhD Daniel J. Pullen, PhD Matthew McLendon, PhD University of Chicago Indiana University Courtauld Institute of Art Associate Professor Professor University of London Northern European Renaissance Art Bronze Age, Aegean, and Associate Curator of Modern and the History of Prints Egyptian Archaeology and Contemporary Art Museum Studies Robert Neuman, PhD Christopher A. Pfaff, PhD University of Michigan Institute of Fine Arts, New York University Fan J. Zhang, PhD Professor Associate Professor Brown University 17th- and 18th-Century Art Greek Art and Architecture Associate Curator of Asian Art and Architecture Museum Studies Günther Stamm Prize for Excellence Sabena Kull was awarded the Günther Stamm Prize for Excellence for “Spinning a Common Thread: Popular Paintings of the Child Virgin in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Seville and Peru“ presented at the 2013 Art History Gradu- ate Student Symposium. A T H A N O R X X X I I ALLYS PALLADINO-CRAIG JULIENNE T. MASON Editor Designer COLLEEN BOWEN DURRA-PRINT, TALLAHASSEE, FL Graduate Editorial Assistant Printing PROJECT SUPPORT This program sponsored in part by The Dean, College of Visual Arts, Theatre & Dance and the Museum of Fine Arts Press, and by the City of Tallahassee, Leon County and through the Council on Culture and Arts. A T H A N O R X X X I I JUSTIN GREENLEE Quod Vocatur Paradiso: The Pigna and the Atrium at Old St. Peter’s 7 SARAH C. SIMMONS The Seal of Approval: Visualizing Patriarchal Power and Legitimacy in Ninth-Century Constantinople 17 SABENA KULL Spinning a Common Thread: Popular Paintings of the Child Virgin in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Seville and Peru 25 KRISTI M. PETERSON Discourses of Power: Andean Colonial Literacies and The Virgin Mary of the Mountain 37 AKEEM FLAVORS Framing the Botanical: Picturing Nature and Painting the Castas of Eighteenth-Century Mexico 45 J. CABELLE AHN The Ruins of Iconologie: Redefining Architecture in Jean-Charles Delafosse’s Desseins 53 NAOMI SLIPP For the Edification of All: Nineteenth-Century American Medicine, Art, and the Role of the Classical Cast in Cultural Life 65 ALISSA R. ADAMS Politics, Prints, and a Posthumous Portrait: Delaroche’s Napoleon in his Study 75 CARLEE S. FORBES Creativity in the Congo Free State: Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Funerary Mats 83 JENNIFER BAEZ Constructing the Nation at the 1955 Ciudad Trujillo World’s Fair 93 SAMANTHA KARAM Challenging Ideologies: Contrasting Dorothea Tanning’s Mid-Twentieth Century Animal Paintings with Contemporaneous Zoo Designs 103 MICHAEL SPORY Looking Back, Standing Still, Moving Forward: Monument, Stadium, and Social Narrative in Contemporary South Africa 111 Quod Vocatur Paradiso: The Pigna and the Atrium at Old St. Peter’s Justin Greenlee Today, a monumental ancient bronze pigna, or pinecone, pigna served as the essential