As the recipient of the 2021-22 Jameson Fellowship for American Painting and Decorative Arts, Julie Timte will spend the next academic year as a researcher at the Bayou Bend Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts and receive a $13,000 stipend.
Interested in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art and Architecture and Art of the the Islamic Worlds, Julie explains her motivation for undergoing research at the Bayou Bend Collection:
"My research interest lies in examples of global exchange from the fifteenth century onward. I am particularly interested in how ideas, iconographies, and material objects themselves were shared across geographic and cultural boundaries. To date, my research has focused on examples of cross-cultural translations between the Italian Peninsula and the Islamic World, and I am thrilled to extend this research to America and deepen my knowledge through the Jameson Fellowship. I am excited to have the opportunity to research further examples of global exchange in the Bayou Bend Collection, including but not limited to: the Queen Anne "chinoiserie" high chest, the collection of global blue-and-white ceramics, the exoticizing wallpaper in the Music Room, and various Turkish and Persian carpets."