Dr. Ripollés is assistant professor of art history at Portland State University (Oregon). She specializes in the art of the Hispanic World during the early modern period, with emphasis on early modern artistic theory, notions of artistic identity, and material culture. She has published in Emblematica and Renaissance Quarterly, and is the author of the entry on Bodegones in Oxford Bibliographies.
In this still life, objects and customs from around the world converge around one delicious food: chocolate.
