Curated by Concordia College students of HART 365: Renaissance and Baroque Art History, a course taught by Dr. Danielle Gravon, the following exhibition centers around European interpretations and collecting of non-European art during the early modern colonial period. The pieces in the exhibition range from a Netherlandish silver-gilded coconut cup with biblical engravings and a Beninese ivory salt cellar with intricately carved Portuguese traders to a Puebla ceramic chocolate jar and prints of curiosity cabinets, which display European collections of worldly artifacts. Through these objects students explored colonial interpretations of indigenous art, artistic exchange, global trade, European representations of non-European peoples, and colonial practices of collecting.

Sapi-Portuguese Ivory Spoon

Ivory Rosary

Decoration for a Thesis in Honor of Saint Francis Solano

Altar To The Hand Of Ezomo Ehenua

Ferrante Imperato's Curiosity Cabinet

Chocolate Jar with Iron-Locked Lid

New World Scene

Hip Ornament: Leopard Head

Head of the Virgin Ivory

Market of Goa

Scenes of the Passion

Ole Worm's Curiosity Cabinet

Bini-Portuguese Ivory Salt Cellar

Coconut Cup with Cover