Shannah Rose

Shannah Rose is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She holds a B.A. in Art History and B.F.A. in Printmaking from the University of Virginia (2016) and an M.A. in Art History & Latin American Studies from Tulane University (2019). Her dissertation, “The Codex Ríos and the Reception of Mesoamerican Pictography in Early Modern Italy,” examines the creation, translation, exchange, and reproduction of illustrated manuscripts between colonial Mexico and early modern Italy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. While a major component of her dissertation argues for the Codex Ríos (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana) as a linguistic and cultural mediator between Rome and Mexico, as a fellow at MAP, Shannah will explore the object biographies of Aztec pictorial codices in Tuscan collections at the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana and Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale and mine their archival records at the Archivio di Stato. Shannah’s research has been supported by the Renaissance Society of America (RSA), the International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA), the Medieval Academy of America (MAA), the Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies, Rare Book School, and the Tinker Foundation.