Bohn Babette - A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

A companion to Renaissance and Baroque art / Edited by Babette Bohn and James M. Saslow.
pages cm. (Blackwell companions to art history)
Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4443-3726-6 (hardback)
1. Art, Renaissance. 2. Art, Baroque. I. Bohn, Babette, 1950 editor of compilation.
II. Saslow, James M.
N6370.C585 2013
709.024dc23

2012033135

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

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Niall Atkinson is the Neubauer Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago. He received his Ph.D. in the history of architecture and urbanism from Cornell University in 2009, after serving as a research fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence, Italy. His research focuses on urban experience, the social construction of space, and the literary imagination of the city in late medieval and early modern Italy. He is currently working on a book-length study of the soundscape and communicative urban networks of the Italian Renaissance city.
Claire Barry, Director of Conservation, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, holds an M.A. and Certificate of Advanced Study in Paintings Conservation from the Cooperstown Graduate Program, State University College of Oneonta and a B.A. from Oberlin College. At the Kimbell, she cares for European master paintings, 13001950, with a concentration in Renaissance and Baroque works. Her hands-on activity as a paintings conservator has granted her special access to the works of art entrusted to her care, providing unique opportunities to gain insights into the artists creative process. She has lectured and published widely on a broad range of conservation topics, often focusing on artists materials and techniques. Her published technical studies include essays on Federico Barocci, Georges de la Tour, Bartolom Murillo, Fernando Gallego, and Anne Vallayer-Coster, among others. She also plays an active role in the acquisitions and exhibitions programs at the Kimbell.
Babette Bohn, Professor of Art History, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX, is a specialist in Italian art, with a Ph.D. from Columbia University. She has published widely on Bolognese prints, drawings, and paintings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Her publications include two books on Italian prints (Agostino Carracci and Italian Masters of the Sixteenth Century) and two on the drawings of Ludovico Carracci (2004) and Guido Reni (2008), the latter an exhibition catalogue for the Uffizi Gallery. Bohns current research interests focus on the women artists of Bologna; and she is co-author and co-curator of a monographic exhibition on Federico Barocci (2012). She teaches classes on European Renaissance and Baroque art, prints and drawings, and womens studies. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, American Philosophical Society, Kress Foundation, and the Villa I Tatti, the Center for Italian Renaissance Studies of Harvard University.
Koenraad Brosens, Research Professor of Art History, University of Leuven (KULeuven), Belgium, is a specialist in early modern Flemish and European tapestry. His publications include articles in American and European journals (including