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This course focuses on the visual culture and the artistic interconnections among the territories under the global hegemony of the Spanish Empire. Students explore the so-called Spanish Golden Age through the lens of the circulation of ideas, artworks and artists as a practice that significantly shaped Early Modernity. We will navigate and discuss the mutual artistic exchanges between Spain, its American Colonies, its Italian territories (Milan, Naples and Sicily), and its allies (Genoa and Florence), as part of an extraordinarily extended network of political and cultural relationships, across the Mediterranean and beyond. The syllabus includes topics such as: the reception of the Renaissance in Columbus’ mudéjar [Moorish] Seville; traveling Iberian artists in search of Michelangelo’s model; El Greco’s Mediterranean; Titian’s influence on Velázquez’s artistic practice; the visual response to the miraculous catholic images in Latin America, such as the Virgin of Guadalupe, and to the canonization of Rosa of Lima, the first saint of the New World. There will be a final paper.