Claudia Brittenham is an Associate Professor of Art History and the College at the University of Chicago.  Her research focuses on the art of Mesoamerica, especially Central Mexico and the Maya area, with interests in the materiality of art and the politics of style. She is the author of The Murals of Cacaxtla: The Power of Painting in Ancient Central Mexico; The Spectacle of the Late Maya Court: Reflections on the Murals of Bonampak (with Mary Miller); and Veiled Brightness: A History of Ancient Maya Color (with Stephen Houston and colleagues).