Esther Pearl Watson's paintings have been widely exhibited

and were often commissioned by or for rulers

Capturing the quintessential Los Angeles experience with its balance of the banal and the beautiful

Drawing mainly on the extensive print collection of the Norton Simon Museum

Marco Musillo is a research fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence

Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America Persia Esther Pearl Watson's paintings haveAaron M. Hyman Winner of the Latin American Studies Association's 2022 Best Book in Colonial Latin American Studies Honorable Mention for the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize, Renaissance Society of America, 2023 This book examines the reception in Latin America of prints designed by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, showing how colonial artists used such designs to create all manner of artworks and, in the process, forged new frameworks for