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Research Faculty Current Endeavors
2. Baroque, Rococo and Enlightenment Art and Architecture Kristel Smentek is a scholar of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art, with particular interests in the art market and collecting practices and their roles in structuring the reception of art. Her research and publications have focused on the eighteenth-century print market, the impact of empiricist epistemology on the display and preservation of artworks, the interrelationship of natural history and rococo design, and the cross-cultural dimensions of European art and collecting. Former faculty member Erika Naginski edited a special volume of Thresholds (2004) entitled “Concerto Barocco,” which was dedicated to emeritus Baroque scholar Henry Millon; the roster of contributors included graduate students in the HTC program as well as graduates Hilary Ballon and Christy Anderson.
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