FACULTY NEWS | March 16, 2021
Out of the classroom and into hallowed virtual gallery walls, Professor Mahnaz Yousefzadeh's study of Napoletano's Persian Hunt (1620), out now, began as a curricular development project when she brought NYU Florence students to the backrooms of the Uffizi Galleries for a behind-the-scenes look at culture production. The study appears in On Being Present, Vol. II: Recovering Blackness in the Uffizi Galleries, an exhibition dedicated to creating new texts that reflect upon the Black African figures in the collections of the Uffizi Gallery and Pitti Palace.