Andrea Ortuño specializes in the art of the early modern Hispanic world. She previously worked as Coordinator of Education at The Hispanic Society of America Museum and Library in New York, where she studied the museum’s extensive collection of pottery. Dr. Ortuño has presented and published on early modern Spanish ceramics and painting, specifically focusing on the trade and reception of luxury pottery produced by Iberian Muslims in the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries. She has a secondary interest in the architecture of upper Manhattan institutions built in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, and, as a result, has recently published on the early career of noted American architect William Welles Bosworth (1869–1966). At BCC, she has served as Director of the Hall of Fame Art Gallery and is a member of the Faculty Council and College Senate. Dr. Ortuño teaches both Art 11: Introduction to Art History and Art 12: Introduction to the Art of Africa, the Americas, Asia, and the Middle East.

Education:

BA, University of Texas at Austin, Art History

MPhil, City University of New York Graduate School & University Center, Art History

PhD, City University of New York Graduate School & University Center, Art History

Publications:

"German Brass Basins as a Source for Late Fifteenth-Century and Early Sixteenth-Century Valencian Lusterware Forms," Source: Notes in the History of Art 42 (Summer 2023):
250–260.

“An Early Etching by William Welles Bosworth,” Metropolitan Museum Journal 58 (2023): 107–115.

“Fallen Women, Rising Career: William Welles Bosworth’s Early Work for the New York Magdalen Benevolent Society,” Art Inquiries 18, nos. 2–3 (2021–2022): 128–143.

“Late Medieval Iberian Lusterware in the Northern European Imagination,” West 86^th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture 27, no. 1 (Spring–Summer 2020): 22–44.

“Traded, then Venerated: The Fictitious Sacred Histories of Two Nasrid Vases,” Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture 6 (Fall 2018): 177–200.

“Revisiting Allan Cunningham’s Cabinet Gallery and a Last Supper Once Attributed to Murillo.” Source: Notes in the History of Art 36 (Fall 2016): 49–60.