Author: Anthony Welch

Anthony Welch is Professor in the Department of History in Art at the University of Victoria. He is author of Shah ‘Abbas and the Arts of Isfahan, Arts of the Islamic Book (with S.C. Welch), Calligraphy in the Arts of the Muslim World, and Artists for the Shah: Late Sixteenth Century Painting at the Imperial Court of Iran, among other books. Clara Bargellini is Senior Research Fellow and Professor at the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She has written widely on the art of colonial Mexico, and most recently has contributed to The Arts of Latin America, 1492-1820.