Art History Professor Amara Solari receives major grant from National Endowment for the Humanities

Amara Solari, Associate Professor of Art History at Penn State, received a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of the research project, “Maya Christian Murals of Yucatán: Indigenous Catholicism in Early Modern New Spain.” A Collaborative Research grant of $214,742 will enable Solari to pursue this multi-year project with co-PI Linda Williams of the University of Puget Sound. Their research focuses on fragile religious murals painted by Christianized Maya artists in Yucatán, Mexico, between 1550 and 1750. In addition to writing a scholarly book on these murals, Solari and Williams are creating an interactive website that will provide open access to images of the murals.