Ianick Takaes is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History and Archaeology and the Certificate Program in Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University, and the program coordinator of the Spanish Italy and the Iberian Americas research project. He specializes in early modern European art in relation to the Iberian Americas, early twentieth-century art historiography (with a focus on the Warburgian tradition), and experimental aesthetics. He holds a B.A. in Visual Arts and an M.A. in Art History from the State University of Campinas, Brazil. In his master's thesis, Ianick discussed and translated Edgar Wind's Art and Anarchy into Portuguese (Edunicamp, 2025). His writings have appeared in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes, including the Journal of Art Historiography, Figura, and Engramma, among others. His most recent publication is “‘That Magnificent Sense of Disproportion’—Edgar Wind’s Critique of (Humorless) Modern Art,” in Edgar Wind: Art and Embodiment (Peter Lang, 2024).
In his doctoral dissertation, Ianick discusses the creation, circulation, and uses of Philippe Thomassin's multiplate engraving of the Last Judgment, which was made in Rome in 1606 and soon circulated around the Iberian world. His work has been supported by several fellowships, most recently from the Huntington Library, the Folger Library, the NYPL, the Newberry Library, and the August Herzog August Bibliothek. In 2025–2026, Ianick will be a Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.