Professor. Scholarly interests include Baroque painting and sculpture of Italy and Spain, with a special focus on the Caravaggesque tradition and on the interpretation of Baroque pictures of non-religious subject matter. Publications include Artemisia Gentileschi and the Authority of Art: Critical Reading and Catalogue Raisonné (1999) and Orazio Gentileschi and the Poetic Tradition in Caravaggesque Painting (1981).
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