Maria Berbara (Ph.D., University of Hamburg) is professor of Art History at the State University of Rio de Janeiro. She specializes in Italian and Iberian art produced between the 15th and 17th centuries, as well as in cultural history, early modern globalism, and intellectual interchange in the Atlantic world. Her current research examines the history of Antarctic France, the global image of the Tupinamba, and the relation between art, diseases, and conversion processes across the early modern Atlantic. Her individual and joint academic projects have been supported by the Getty Foundation, Villa I Tatti, DAAD/Germany, INHA/Paris, and the Brazilian funding agencies Fapesp, Faperj, CNPq, and Capes. Together with Carmen Fernández Salvador and Patrícia Zalamea Fajardo, she currently coordinates the project “The Amazon Basin as Connecting Borderland: Examining Cultural and Artistic Fluidities in the Early Modern Period”, funded by the Connecting Art Histories initiative in 2023.