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Fracchia, Carmen (2019) Black but human: slavery and visual arts in Hapsburg Spain, 1480-1700. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198767978.

Fracchia, Carmen (2018) Picturing the Afro-Hispanic struggle for freedom in early modern Spain. In: Branche, J. (ed.) Post/Colonialism and the Pursuit of Freedom in the Black Atlantic. Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138061477.

Fracchia, Carmen (2016) The place of African slaves in early modern Spain. In: Spicer, A. and Stevens Crawshaw, J. (eds.) The Problem and Place of the Social Margins. Routledge Studies in Cultural History. Oxford, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138790728.

Fracchia, Carmen (2015) The impact of the African presence in early modern Spanish portraiture. In: Renaissance Society of America, 61st Annual Meeting - Early Modern Hybridity and Globalization: Artistic and Architectural Exchange in the Iberian World, 26-28 Mar 2015, Berlin, Germany. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (2014) La mulata, de Velázquez. In: Martín Casares, A. and Periáñez Gómez, R. (eds.) Mujeres esclavas y abolicionistas en la España de los siglos XVI-XIX. Tiempo Emulado. Historia de América y España 34. Frankfurt, Germany and Madrid, Spain: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, pp. 17-32. ISBN 9788484897965.

Fracchia, Carmen (2013) Metamorphosis of the self in early modern Spain: slave portraiture and the case of Juan de Pareja. In: Lugo-Ortiz, A. and Rosenthal, A. (eds.) Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 146-169. ISBN 9781107004399.

Fracchia, Carmen (2013) Spanish depictions of the miracle of the black leg. In: Zimmerman, K. (ed.) One Leg in the Grave Revisited: The miracle of the transplantation of the black leg by the saints Cosmas and Damian. Eelde, The Netherlands: Barkhuis, pp. 79-91. ISBN 9789491431234.

Fracchia, Carmen (2013) Velázquez and the case of his slave-painter Juan de Pareja. In: Velázquez and the case of his slave-painter Juan de Pareja, 2013, St Dunstan’s College, London, UK. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (2013) Whitening the African body in early modern Spain. In: Art in Translation: Translating Cultures in the Hispanic World, 2013, University of Edinburgh, UK. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (2013) The visual representation of Afro-Hispanic slaves in early modern Spain. In: Literature, Ideas and Society Seminars: Culture and Commodity, 2013, The Warburg Institute, London, UK. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen and Macartney, H. (2012) The fall into oblivion of the works of the slave painter Juan de Pareja. Art In Translation 4 (2), pp. 163-184. ISSN 1756-1310.

Fracchia, Carmen (2012) La metamorfosis de Juan de Pareja. In: Esclavitud, mestizaje y abolicionismo en el mundo hispánico, 2012, Horizontes Socio-culturales, University of Granada, Spain. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (2012) Slavery and slaves in early modern Spanish visual culture. In: On the Margins? Rethinking the Problem and Place of ‘Outsiders’ 1400-1800, 2012, St Anne’s College, Oxford, UK. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (2012) Slavery and visual culture in imperial Spain. In: European History 1500-1800 Seminar, 2012, University of London and Institute of Historical Research, University of London, Senate House, UK. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (2012) The emergence of early modern slavery and the problematization of whiteness in the visual form in imperial Spain. In: Old and New Ethnicities: Conflicts and Communities, 2012, Birkbeck, University of London, UK. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (2012) The urban slave in Spain and New Spain. In: McGrath, E. and Massing, J.M. (eds.) The Slave in European Art From Renaissance Trophy to Abolitionist Emblem. Warburg Institute Colloquia 20. London, UK: The Warburg Institute, pp. 195-216. ISBN 9781908590435.

Fracchia, Carmen (2011) Women’s artistic production and their visual representation in early modern Spain. In: Coates, G. and de Ros, X. (eds.) A Companion to Spanish Women’s Studies. Monografías A. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell and Brewer, pp. 129-142. ISBN 9781855662247.

Fracchia, Carmen (2011) Afro-hispanos en la pintura de Velázquez: la mulata y Juan de Pareja. In: 3rd Internacional Congress of Afroeurope@ns, Afroeurope@s: Culturas e Identidades’, 2011, University of Cadiz, Cadiz, Spain. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (2011) Slave subjectivity in imperial Spain. In: Representations of Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2011, Southern Historical Association, Baltimore-Maryland, USA. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (2011) Slavery and visuality in imperial Spain: the miracle of the black leg. In: The Early Modern Society, 2011, Birkbeck, University of London, UK. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (2010) El esclavo negroafricano en las imágenes españolas de los Santos Cosme y Damián. In: Casares, M.A. and Garcia Barranco, M. (eds.) La esclavitud negroafricana en la historia de España, siglos XVI y XVII. Granada, Spain: Comares, pp. 127-149. ISBN 9788498367744.

Fracchia, Carmen (2010) The image of colonial Mexico in Hampshire: the Braemore Casta paintings. In: 36th Annual Conference of Art Historians: Insular Preconceptions? The Arts of Iberia and Latin America and their Reception in Britain, 2010, University of Glasgow, UK. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (2010) The subjectivity of slaves in imperial Spain: the case of slave painter Juan de Pareja. In: History of Art at the crossroad?, 2010, Department of History of Art, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (2010) The visual formation of slave subjectivity in Spain. In: Birkbeck Staff Renaissance Research Seminar, 2010, Birkbeck, University of London, UK. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (2009) La problematización del blanqueamiento visual del cuerpo africano en la España imperial y en nueva España. Revista Chilena de Antropología Visual 14 , pp. 67-82. ISSN 0717-876X.

Fracchia, Carmen (2009) El esclavo negroafricano en las imágenes españolas de los Santos Cosme y Damián. In: Los negroafricanos y sus descendientes en España (1492-1866), 2009, University of Granada, Spain. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (2009) El problema del blanqueamiento en las imágenes del afro-hispano en la España imperial y en nueva España. In: 53rd International Congress of Americanists: The Peoples of the Americas, Change and Continuity, 2009, Mexico City, Mexico. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (2009) Questioning slavery in Spain and new Spain. In: International Conference of the Latin American Studies Association: Rethinking Inequalities, 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (2009) The miracle of the black leg. In: Birkbeck Research in Representations of Kinship and Community: ‘Conversation’ as Community: On the Stakes of Painting and Photographing the Bonds of Kinship and Community, 2009, Birkbeck, University of London, UK. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (2009) The subjectivity of Afro-Hispanic Slaves in imperial Spain: the case of Juan de Pareja. In: Department of Iberian and Latin American Studies, 2009, Birkbeck, University of London, UK. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (2008) Arte y esclavitud en la España imperial: el trasplante milagroso de la pierna negra. In: Arte y esclavitud en la España imperial: el trasplante milagroso de la pierna negra, 2008, Instituto de la Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia López Piñero, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (2008) The Braemore Collection of mexican castas paintings. In: ARTES: Iberian and Latin American Visual Culture Group, 2008, Braemore House, Wiltshire, UK. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (2008) Goya y la guerra de la independencia. In: The Peninsula War, 2008, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Instituto Cervantes, London, UK. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (2008) La representación visual del esclavo urbano en la España imperial y en nueva España. In: Instituto de Historia, Centro de Ciencia Humanas y Sociales, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2008, Madrid, Spain. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (2007) Art and slavery in early modern Spain. In: Spanish Cultural Institute, 2007, Instituto Cervantes, London, UK. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (2007) Constructing the black slave in early modern Spanish painting. In: Nichols, T. (ed.) Others and Outcasts in Early Modern Europe:Picturing the Social Margins. Abingdon, UK: Ashgate, pp. 179-195. ISBN 9781138254053.

Fracchia, Carmen (2007) Depicting the Iberian African in new Spain. In: Andrews, J. and Coroleu, A. (eds.) Mexico 1680: Intellectual and Cultural Life at the Apogee of the Barroco de Indias. Bristol, UK: Hiplam, pp. 45-62. ISBN 9780955240638.

Fracchia, Carmen (2007) El olvido de las obras del esclavo pintor Juan de Pareja. In: Siracusano, G. (ed.) Imágenes perdidas: censura, olvido, descuido. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Centro Argentino de Investigadores de Arte, pp. 69-82. ISBN 9789879664445.

Fracchia, Carmen (2007) El olvido de las obras del esclavo pintor Juan de Pareja. In: International Congress of Theory and History of Art, 2007, Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (2007) Questioning slave portraiture in early modern Spain: the case of Diego Velázquez and Juan de Pareja. In: The Early Modern Society, 2007, Birkbeck, University of London, UK. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (2007) The outsider's gaze: depicting black people in Spain. In: Imagining Iberia, 2007, King’s College London, University of London, London, UK. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (2007) The urban slave in Spain and new Spain. In: The Iconography of Slavery in Europe, 1500-1800, 2007, The Warburg Institute, University of London, UK. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (2006) Becoming the self or somebody else: the case of the Afro-Hispanic slave painter Juan de Pareja. In: School of Languages, Linguistics and Culture, Research Forum Seminar, 2006, Birkbeck, University of London, UK. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (2006) The hardest graft of all: the miracle of the black leg in early modern Spain. In: Medicine and the Body Politic, 2006, Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics, University of Brighton, UK. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (2005) Representación de la esclavitud negra en la España imperial y la problematización del par 'original-copia'. In: Siracusano, G. (ed.) Original-Copia…Original? Buenos Aires, Argentina: Centro Argentino de Investigadores de Arte, pp. 269-279.

Fracchia, Carmen (2005) Representación de la esclavitud negra en la España imperial y la problematización del par 'original-copia'. In: 3rd International Congress of Theory and History of Art, 2005, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (2005) Representing black slavery in early modern Spanish urban space. In: 50th Anniversary of the Founding of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland, 2005, Valencia, Spain. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (2004) Becoming the 'self' or somebody else: slave portraiture in imperial Spain. In: Invisible Subjects? Slave Portraiture in the Circum-Atlantic World (1660-1890), 2004, Center for Transcultural Visual Studies, Dartmouth College, USA. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (2004) Depicting African people in colonial Mexico. In: Research Seminar, 2004, Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge, UK. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (2004) (Lack of) visual representation of black slaves in Spanish golden age painting. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies 10 (1), pp. 23-34. ISSN 1470-1847.

Fracchia, Carmen (2003) Constructing the black slave in Spanish Golden Age painting. In: Picturing Poverty: Imagery of the Outcast and Marginal in Early Modern Europe, 2003, History of Art Department and Centre for Early Modern Studies, University of Aberdeen, UK. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (2003) Depicting the African Iberian in new Spain. In: Latin American Identities: Legacies and Possibilities, 2003, Department of Spanish, The National University of Ireland, Galway, Republic of Ireland. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (2003) Depicting the Iberian African in new Spain. In: Mexico City 1680: The Artistic and Intellectual World of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, 2003, Nottingham University, UK. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (2003) Representing the slave trade in early modern Spanish urban space. In: The Topography of Slavery: Re-Membering Metropolitan Space, 2003, Birkbeck, University of London, UK. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (2002) The lack of representation of black people in the Spanish Golden Age painting. In: Black Diaspora and Europe, 2002, Deptartment of Linguistic, Cultural & International Studies, Roehampton University, University of London, UK. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (2000) Cristofano dell' altissimo. In: Turner, J. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Italian Renaissance and Mannerist Art. UNSPECIFIED. ISBN 9780333760949.

Fracchia, Carmen (2000) (Lack of) visual representation of black people in Spanish Golden Age painting. In: Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland, 2000, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (2000) Velázquez's black leg: Juan de Pareja and the hardest graft of all. In: Appropriations and Representations of the Body, 2000, School of Critical Theory and Cultural Studies, University of Nottingham, UK. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (1999) Gaspar Becerra: a Spaniard in the workshop of Daniele da Volterra. The Sculpture Journal 3 , pp. 6-13. ISSN 1366-2724.

Fracchia, Carmen (1998) El retablo mayor de la Catedral de Astorga. un concurso escultórico en la España del Renacimiento. Archivo Español de Arte 71 (282), pp. 157-165. ISSN 0004-0428.

Fracchia, Carmen (1998) Gaspar Becerra: a Spaniard in the workshop of Daniele da Volterra in Rome. In: Golden-Age and Renaissance Research Seminar, 1998, Spanish Department, University College London, University of London, UK. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (1998) La herencia italiana de Gaspar Becerra en el retablo mayor de la Catedral de Astorga. Anuario del Departamento de Historia y Teoría del Arte 10 , pp. 133-151. ISSN 1130-5517.

Fracchia, Carmen (1998) La simbología social de los modelos femenino y masculino en la representación visual del cuerpo humano en la España del siglo XVI. In: Fifth Latin American Congress of History of Science and Technology, Gender, Science and Technology in Latin American History, 1998, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (1997) Gaspar Becerra: a Spaniard in the workshop of Daniele da Volterra. In: A Splendid Isolation? Spanish Cultural Identity and the Visual Arts 1500-1700, 1997, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (1996) Cristofano dell' Altissimo. In: UNSPECIFIED (ed.) The Macmillan Dictionary of Art. London, UK: Macmillan.

Fracchia, Carmen (1992) Gaspar Becerra and the high altar of Astorga. In: Gaspar Becerra and the high altar of Astorga, 1992, History of Art Department, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (1991) The sculptural work of Gaspar Becerra. In: The sculptural work of Gaspar Becerra, 1991, History of Art Department, University College London, University of London, UK. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen (1983) Documenti della sala del risorgimento del palazzo comunale di Siena. Bullettino senese di Storia Patria 90 , pp. 239-248.

Fracchia, Carmen The African presence and black confraternities in early modern Spain. In: Transatlantic Roundtable on Religion and Race (TRRR) International Conference - Repairing Community: Faith-Based Responses to Racial Disparities and Conflict, Jul 2015, London, UK. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen Black slaves in early modern Spain: from commodities to freedom. In: Early Modern Material Cultures Seminar, 6 May 2015, London, UK. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen Depicting the emergence of the Afro-Hispanic subject and the formation of the black nation in early modern Spain. In: Research Seminar. Department of Cultures and Languages, School of Arts, Birkbeck University of London, May 2016, London, UK. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen From the grave: the desire to be healed. In: Silvering the Cerebrum, A Symposium investigating Art, Science and brain banking, 21 Apr 2016, London, UK. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen Juan de Pareja: a slave-painter at the Spanish Court in Seventeenth-Century Madrid. In: The London Art History Society at the Art Workers' Guild, May 2017, London, UK. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen Negros… pero humanos. Esclavitud y arte en la España Imperial. In: Facultad de Letras y Filosofía. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM), Oct 2015, Mexico City, Mexico. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen Picturing "Blackness" in Imperial Spain. In: Reconfiguring Black Europe, 5 Nov 2016, London, UK. (Unpublished)

Fracchia, Carmen Picturing the Afro-Hispanic struggle for freedom in early modern Spain. In: Post/Colonialism and the Pursuit of Freedom in the Black Atlantic, Nov 2015, Pittsburgh, U.S.. (Unpublished)