Staff Profile
Stanley H. Durwood Foundation Curatorial Fellow
talitha_schepers@harvard.edu / 617-495-3769
Ph.D., The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
M.A., The Warburg Institute, London
M.A., KU Leuven University, Belgium
Talitha Maria G. Schepers works closely with the Maida and George Abrams Curator of Drawings, as well as other curators, to conduct original, scholarly research related to the acquisition, study, curatorial care, and display of the museums’ collection of early modern Flemish and Dutch drawings. Passionate about curatorship, teaching, and public outreach, Schepers specializes in early modern Netherlandish art and global encounters. She recently completed her Ph.D. dissertation on works on paper by Netherlandish artists. Before joining the Harvard Art Museums, she undertook a work placement at the Victoria and Albert Museum (London) and a graduate internship in drawings at The J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles).
Recent Publications
“Art and Diplomacy: Pieter Coecke van Aelst’s 1533 Journey to Constantinople.” In Diplomatic Cultures at the Ottoman Court, c. 1500–1630, ed. Tracey A. Sowerby and Christopher Markiewicz, 85–108. New York: Routledge, 2021.
“Art and Diplomacy: The European Perception of the Ottoman during the Renaissance (Gentile Bellini, Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Nicolas de Nicolay).” In Liminal Spaces of Art between Europe and the Middle East, ed. Nina Díaz Fernández, Ivana Prijatelj Pavičić et al., 130–41. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
“Art and Diplomacy: Pieter Coeke Van Aelst’s Journey to Constantinople.” Diplomacy and Culture at the Ottoman Court series. University of Oxford Podcasts, April 7, 2017.