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Jens Baumgarten studied Art History and History in Hamburg and Florence. After post-doctorate fellowships in Dresden, Germany, Mexico-City and Campinas, Brazil he became Professor of Art History at the History Department of the Federal University of São Paulo (Universidade Federal de São Paulo), where he later established one of the first autonomous departments of Art History in Brazil. In 2010 he was Visiting Scholar at the Getty Research Institute. He is a member of the Brazilian Committee of Art History (CBHA). He specializes in early modern art history of Latin America and Europe as well as in historiography of art, visual culture and its theoretical and methodological contexts. He is the author of Image, Confession, and Power (in German, 2004), several articles, and is now preparing a book on “Visual Systems in Colonial Brazil” and “São Paulo as a Neo-Baroque City”.