The First Viral Images: Maerten de Vos, Antwerp Print, and the Early Modern Globe - Hardcover

by Stephanie Porras (Author)

Examines internet virality as a critical framework for considering early modern artworks' global mobility and replication. Explores the role of artistic labor, gatekeepers, infrastructures, and social networks to reassess art's role in processes of globalization.

Author Biography

Stephanie Porras is Professor of Art History at Tulane University. She is the author of Pieter Bruegel's Historical Imagination and Art of the Northern Renaissance, the former also published by Penn State University Press.