Dr. James Pilgrim

Biography

James Pilgrim (Colby College, BA; Williams College, MA; Johns Hopkins University, PhD) studies the ways in which images helped early modern Europeans make sense of the rapidly changing world in which they lived. He is particularly interested in recovering early modern artistic contributions to the emergence of a new environmental consciousness, a new global imaginary, and a growing skepticism about the reliability of the visual—themes that are as important today as they were in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His first book Pastoral’s End: Art, Ecology, and Catastrophe in Renaissance Italy is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press.

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