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Sarah Thomas
Sarah Thomas is Senior Lecturer in the History of Art department at Birkbeck, University of London. Her monograph Witnessing Slavery: Art and Travel in the Age of Abolition was published by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in 2019. It examines the shifting iconography of slavery in British and European art between 1760 and 1840, and reconsiders how enslaved people were depicted within a historical context in which truth was deeply contested. She is currently working on a new book project, Slavery and the British Art Collector, 1768-1833.
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Explore the art of six global cities (Constantinople, Naples, Isfahan, Rio de Janeiro, Lucknow and Cape Town) and discover how cities have been sites of artistic exchange and encounter – where artists, ideas, knowledge, materials and objects interact.