Rebecca Parker Brienen is an Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Miami. She has received fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation and the Kress Foundation. Her publications on early modern visual culture include articles and catalog essays on the German naturalist-illustrator Georg Macgraf and the Dutch artists Frans Post and Albert Eckhout. In addition to a new project on images of slavery in the Caribbean in the 18th century, she is currently editing a collection of essays on images of the Conquest of Mexico.