How portraits of artists during the Renaissance helped create the first art stars in modern
history Michelangelo was one of the biggest international art stars of his time, but being …

This book relates developments in the visual arts and printing to humanist theories of literary
and bodily imitation, bringing together 15th-and 16th-century frescoes, statues, coins, letters …

Involuntary Confessions of the Flesh in Early Modern France was inspired by the
observation that small slips of the flesh (involuntary confessions of the flesh) are …

A printed portrait sounds like an oxymoron: black and white and bereft of the illusionism that
painted portraits used to trick the eye, did printed portraits actually have any stakes in the …

In The Exorcist (1973; dir. William Friedkin), the distraught mother, Chris MacNeil, believing
her daughter Regan to be possessed by a demon, asks Father Damien Karras, a Jesuit …

This thesis examines the corporeal identity of the knight as depicted in late medieval English
culture. Critical readings of Middle English romance, chronicles, medical texts, and natural …

The spectral luminescence of a man's face reverberates in the dark, hovering above the gold
charger into which spirals of his hair pool (Fig. 1). To the left a small reed cross identifies …

Bernini as the Seicento Michelangelo: Imitation and Identity in Art, Architecture and
Biography Carolina Mangone Doctor of Philosophy, History of Art Department of Art …

The term heritable rather than hereditary underscores that the transmissions, whether
complete or imperfect, were not biological or genetic in a post-Enlightenment sense; in …