Harvard - Prado Fellowship
American Friends is proud to help fund the 2025-2026 Joint Fellowship between Harvard's Center for Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti, and the Museo Nacional del Prado given to Dr. Wendy Sepponen, thanks to the generosity of our members and donors.
Dr. Sepponen is writing the manuscript of her book, Imperial Materials: Sculpture and the Making of an Early Modern Habsburg Identity.
While at the Prado, she examines the collection of Leone Leoni's bronze sculptural portraits of the Habsburg family. Her research unites the artistic materials like copper, silver and gold with their role in the larger economic and political context of the Spanish Habsburg rulers during the 16th century.
Dr. Sepponen is writing the manuscript of her book, Imperial Materials: Sculpture and the Making of an Early Modern Habsburg Identity.
While at the Prado, she examines the collection of Leone Leoni's bronze sculptural portraits of the Habsburg family. Her research unites the artistic materials like copper, silver and gold with their role in the larger economic and political context of the Spanish Habsburg rulers during the 16th century.
Wendy Sepponen completed her MA in Art History from the University of Toronto and her PhD in the History of Art at the University of Michigan in 2018. She has worked at the National Gallery of Art, DC, and the Meadows Museum, Dallas, where she was venue curator for the exhibition Alonso Berruguete: First Sculptor of Renaissance Spain. She is now Assistant Professor of Global Early Modern Art at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth.