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Sean Roberts
I am an art historian with a specialization in the art of the Italian Renaissance. I received my Ph.D. in 2006 from the University of Michigan and am currently an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Tufts University, Medford MA. My dissertation "Cartography Between Cultures: Francesco Berlinghieri's Geographia of 1482" treated a Florentine printed atlas and its use as a diplomatic gift from the Florentine government to the Ottoman Sultan.
My areas of research interest include the early history of cartography, intersections between art and science in the early modern world, and the history of prints, printing, and books.
I am presently pursuing research on Tintoretto's images of Muslims in his paintings and on representations of black Africans in Italian Renaissance painting.
