Christa Irwin

Scholarly publications

• "Paintings as Symbols of Power and Presence in the Early Modern City: Italian Artists and the Identity of Colonial Lima" (in progress for submission to Colonial Latin American Review) "Angelino Medoro and the Only Portrait of Saint Rose of Lima," for an edited volume entitled, Artistic Interactions between Italy, Spain, and the Americas, edited by Lisandra Estevez, Routledge Press. (in progress)
• "Style and Meaning Beyond Europe: Bernardo Bitti and Mannerism," for an edited volume entitled, Hybridity in Late Medieval and Early Modern Art, edited by Madeline Rislow and Ashley Elston, Routledge Press, 2022. .
• "Exploring Cultural Identity: Connections between Art History and Museum-Based Art Therapy Practice," co-authored with Dr. Ashley Hartman, Assistant Professor Art Therapy, Marywood University, The International Journal of the Inclusive Museum, Volume 14, Issue 1, May 2021.
• "Teaching the Global Baroque in the midst of a Global Pandemic: Backwards Design as a Solution" Sixteenth Century Journal: Teaching the Early Modern in the Age of COVID-19, Volume 51 (2020).
• "Catholic Presence and Power: Jesuit Painter Bernardo Bitti at Lake Titicaca in Peru," Journal of Jesuit Studies, Issue 6.2 (Summer 2019)
• "Bernardo Bitti and the Counter Reformation in the Viceroyalty of Peru," in Art and Reform in the Late Renaissance: After Trent, ed. Jesse Locker (London, Routledge: 2018)
• Contributor of entries on Mannerism in South America and paintings by Bernardo Bitti to Pintura colonial cusqueña: el esplendor del arte en los Andes/Paintings of Colonial Cusco: Artistic Splendor in the Andes. Cusco, Peru: Haynanka Ediciones, 2015.

Website articles

• The Out-of-Town Class Trip to the Museum, arthistoryteachingresources.com, 9/23/16, http://arthistoryteachingresources.org/2018/03/re-creating-indus-valley-seals-an-in-class-activity/
• Re-Creating Indus Seals: An In-Class Activity, arthistoryteachingresources.com, 3/1/18 http://arthistoryteachingresources.org/2018/03/re-creating-indus-valley-seals-an-in-class-activity/
• Bernardo Bitti, Coronation of the Virgin, https://smarthistory.org/bitti-coronation-virgin/, July 2019

Conference presentations

• Bernardo Bitti: Jesuit Art as Weapon for Conversion, Bridges Across Cultures International Conference, Viterbo, Italy, June 19-21, 2024
• Paintings as Symbols of Power and Presence in the Early Modern City: Italian Artists and the Identity of Colonial Lima, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Baltimore, MD, October 25-28, 2023.
• Ice Breakers for the Art History Classroom, Annual Conference of the College Art Association, New York, February 15-18, 2023
• Ice Breakers for the Art History Classroom, Annual Conference of the College Art Association, New York, February 15-18, 2023
• Cultural Identity in the University Gallery, presented with Dr. Ashley Hartman, International Inclusive Museum Conference, Philadelphia, April 22-24, 2022
• Angelino Medoro at the Convento de los Descalzos: European Saints in Lima, Southeastern Renaissance Conference, October 15-16, 2021 (virtual)
• Exploring Cultural Identity Through the Artwork of Colonial Latin American Artists, Panel organized with Dr. Ashley Hartman, The Inclusive Museum Conference, Buenos, Aires, November 8-10, 2019
• Locating the Hidden Figures Among Early Modern Women, Paper Presentation and Workshop, Attending to Early Modern Women Conference, Milwaukee, WI, June 13-16, 2018
• Style and Meaning beyond Europe: Bernardo Bitti and Mannerism, Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, March 22-24, 2018
• Intimate Altarpieces: Women and Private Devotion in Trecento Italy, South Central Renaissance Conference, Austin, TX, April 21-22, 2017
• Catholic Presence and Power: Jesuit Painter Bernardo Bitti at Lake Titicaca in Peru, Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, March 29-April 1, 2017
• The Virgin Lactans in Colonial Lima: Maternal and Spiritual Role Model, College Art Association Annual Conference, Washington, DC, February 3-6, 2016
• Bernardo Bitti: An Italian Reform Painter in the Viceroyalty of Peru, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Vancouver, Canada, October 22-25, 2015
• Bernardo Bitti's Coronation of the Virgin: A Case Study in Early Colonial Painting in Lima, Christianity and Latin American Art: Apprehension, Appropriation, and Assimilation, Association of Scholars of Christianity in the History of Art, Los Angeles, CA, February 21, 2012
• Angelino Medoro and the Only Portrait of Saint Rose of Lima, Southeastern College Art Conference, Savannah, GA, November 9-12, 2011
• Italian Mannerism in Lima: The South American Careers of Bernardo Bitti, Matteo da Leccio, and Angelino Medoro, Annual Renaissance Society of America Conference, April 8-10, 2010

Book reviews

• Renaissance Quarterly: Aaron Hyman, Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America (in progress)
• Renaissance Quarterly: Susan Verdi Webster, Lettered Artists and the Language of Empire: Painters and Profession in Early Colonial Quito (Issue 72.1, Spring 2019)