Maria Berbara (PhD, University of Hamburg) teaches 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 the 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.

At the INHA, her research project addressed the ways in which the Tupinambá were visually and rhetorically represented during the early modern period, and how these representations related to Europe's political, ideological and religious situation. 

- França Antártica – Ensaios Interdisciplinares (ed., with Renato Menezes and Sheila Hue). Campinas: Editora da Unicamp, 2021

- Um olhar sobre a crueldade na primeira época moderna: o método de execução tupinambá e a tortura pre-mortem durante as guerras de religião na Europa. In: Atas do XIV EHA - Encontro de História da Arte Campinas. Unicamp, 2020, pp. 38-49

- “Um exemplo de continuidade entre a representação do sacrifício cristão, hebraico e greco-romano no renascimento: o friso da nave central de San Giovanni Evangelista, em Parma”. Revista Figura, v. 8, pp. 164-183, 2020

- The Zoological Other in Early Modern Europe: The Case of the Armadillo. In: Proceedings of the 34th World Congress of Art History. Beijing: The Commercial Press, 2019, pp. 1497-1504

- “O desenho de Francisco de Holanda representando Ulisses e Sansão nas Imagines”. Revista Diálogos Mediterrânicos, v. 15, 2018, pp. 81-93

- “Imperial Propaganda and the Representation of Otherness in Portugal and Its Colonies in the Early Modern Times”. In: Urte Krass (ed.), Visualizing Portuguese Power. The Political Use of images in Portugal and its Overseas Empire. Zurich: Diaphanes, 2017, pp. 75-86

- “Between Heroism and Martyrdom: Considerations regarding the representation of the Latin American hero in the 19th century”. 19&20, v. 10, 2015

- "Visual Representations of Medea's Anger in the Early Modern Period: Rembrandt and Rubens". In: Karl Enenkel; Anita Traninger (eds.). Discourses of anger in the early Modern Period. Leiden: Brill, 2015, pp. 357-377

- “Reflections on Portuguese Cosmopolitanism during the Manueline Period and its Aftermath in Luso-Brazilian Art and Historiography”. Jahrbuch fur Geschichte Lateinamerikas (1998) / Anuario de Historia de América Latina, v. 50, 2013, pp. 289-302

- “Images of Heroism and Martyrdom. Borrowings from the Vatican »Laocoon« during the Early Modern Period”. In: The Challenge of the object/ Die Herausforderung des Objekts. Proceedings of the 33rd Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art (Nuremberg, 2013). Nuremberg: Verlag des Germanischen Nationalmuseums, 2013, pp. 231-235.

- “Portuguese Humanism and the Republic of Letters” (ed.). Leiden: Brill, 2012

- “Nascentes morimur: Francisco da Holanda as Artist, Reader and Writer”. In: Heiko Damm; Michael Thimann; Claus Zittel (eds.), The Artist as Reader. On Education and Non-Education of Early Modern Artists. Leiden: Brill, 2012, pp. 387-419

- “Renascimento Italiano - Ensaios e Traduções” (ed.). Rio de Janeiro: NAU, 2010

- “Esta pena tan sabrosa: Teresa of Avila and the Figurative Arts in Early Modern Europe”. In: Karl Enenkel; Jan Frans Van Dijkhuizen (eds.). The Sense of Suffering: Constructions of Physical Pain in Early Modern Culture. Leiden: Brill, 2009, pp. 267-294

- “Michelangelo Buonarroti. Cartas Escolhidas” (annotaded translation). Campinas: Editora da Unicamp: 2009

- “Civic Self-Offering: some Renaissance representations of Marcus Curtius”. In: K. Enenkel; J. de Jong; J. de Landtsheer (eds.). Recreating Ancient History. Episodes from the Greek and Roman Past in Arts and Literature of the Early Modern Period. 1 ed. Leiden-Boston-Köln: Brill, 2001, pp. 147-165