Wendy Bellion is Associate Dean for the Humanities and Sewell Biggs Chair of American Art History at the University of Delaware, USA. She is the author of two monographs (including Iconoclasm in New York: Revolution to Reenactment), editor or co-editor for three volumes (including “Objects in Motion: Art and Material Culture across the Americas,” Winterthur Portfolio (2011), and Material Cultures of the Global Eighteenth Century, Bloomsbury 2023), and numerous articles about histories of artistic destruction.