Wendy Sepponen completed her PhD at the University of Michigan with a dissertation on the sculptural production practices of Leone and Pompeo Leoni and the circulation of their works between their workshops in Milan and Madrid, respectively, in relation to larger questions of imperial cultural identities and changes in local material cultures, artistic industries and markets. She has worked at the Sculpture and Decorative Arts Department at the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.) and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. She is the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Meadows Museum, SMU (Dallas).