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Kayla Johnson
Kayla Johnson holds a BA in Art History from the University of Nevada, Reno and is a current Masters student in Global Cultures at the University of Bologna, Italy. She is most interested in the biographies of objects and the ways they reveal the intersection between historical context, economics, politics, and culture.
Education:University of Nevada, RenoBA Art HistoryUniversità di BolognaMA Global CulturesExpertise:Articles by Kayla Johnson
The Mughal Empire, from 1526-1857, was a wealthy, tolerant Muslim empire in India. Emperors like Bābur, Akbar, Jahangir, and Shah Jahan left a legacy of power, art, and cultural contributions.
The Renaissance brought a Western European intellectual shift, emphasizing humanist values like education, individualism, and objectivity, profoundly impacting politics, art, and religion.
The Classical world left a legacy of techniques, forms, and materials that were recycled and reused as inspiration centuries later by artists of the Modern period.
The prevalence of this technology across time and cultures speaks to a larger question about the relationship of people to the environments that surround them, as well as the urge to mold and bend this nature to create objects of significance.
