Michelangelo’s originality as an artist lay not only in ideas about perfection and beauty, but also in his unique approach to the artistic process and art’s site specificity. Michelangelo’s frescoes i
Gillgren (art history, Stockholm U., Sweden) brings forward the Urbino painter Federico Barocci (1535-1612), who is less widely known than he should be outside of the scholars and connoisseurs who adm
A new interest in the study of early modern ritual, ceremony, formations of personal and collective identities, social roles, and the production of meaning inside and outside the arts have made it pos
