Michael Schreffler

Michael Schreffler's research draws from early sixteenth-century Spanish reports on the Americas to examine the shifting affordances of extraordinary objects made of gold and silver as they changed hands in the Peruvian Andes and traveled across the Atlantic. The project contributes to the scholarship on gold, its lure, and its extraction in the Americas, but it also engages in broader discussions on early modern ideals of authorship and paradigms of naturalism in artistic production.