Department of Art History https://www.johncabot.edu/art-history/faculty.aspx Haohao Lu is a historian of early modern European art. Her area of specialization is sixteenth-century Netherlandish art, and her research focuses on the intersection of early modern visual culture, theories and practices of play, and reception studies. Her additional research interests include early modern notions of eroticism and ugliness, visual and psychological histories of camouflage, and representations of early modern environmental understandings. She teaches courses on early modern European art, including surveys of Italian and Northern Renaissance art, as well as research-based courses investigating cultures of play in Renaissance Europe (“The Playful Renaissance”) and early modern cultural exchanges (“Early Modern Europe and the World”). Before joining John Cabot University, Professor Lu was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History at Vassar College, where she taught Northern Renaissance and Baroque Art.