Recent Research
Current Projects:
Michelangelo’s Samaritan Woman
The Canon of Sculpture in Renaissance Print and Theory
Essays on sixteenth-century Italian Art
Publications:
Michelangelo in Print: Reproductions as Response in the Sixteenth Century (Aldershot: Ashgate, projected publication date January, 2010).
“Skin, Bones, and Dust: On the Self-Portraits in Michelangelo’s Last Judgment,” Sixteenth Century Journal, 35 (2004), 969-986.
Michelangelo's Last Judgment: The Renaissance Response(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998).
Reviews:
Review of Heinrich W. Pfeiffer, S.J., The Sistine Chapel: A New Vision, in Renaissance Quarterly, 62 (2009), 525–526.
Review of Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser, The Patron’s Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art on EH.net, Economics History Association, 2009.
Review of Raymond B. Waddington, Aretino’s Satyr: Sexuality, Satire, and Self-Projection in Sixteenth-Century Literature and Art, in Modern Philology, 106 (2008).
Review of Patricia Emison, The Simple Art: Printed Images in an Age of Magnificence, and Michael Cole (ed.), The Early Modern Painter-Etcher, in Sixteenth Century Journal, 39 (2008), 580-581.
Review of Hugo Chapman, Michelangelo, in Sixteenth Century Journal, 38 (2007), 1223.
Review of David Ekserdjian, Parmigianino, in Renaissance Quarterly, 60 (2007), 543-4.
Lectures:
“Michelangelo’s Women,” invited lecture at Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, April 17, 2009.
“‘Reproductions’ of Michelangelo’s Architecture: Audience and Purpose,” Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, March 19, 2009.
“From Sculpture to Print: The Reproductions (or Lack Thereof) of Michelangelo’s Sculpture,” Symposium at Syracuse University in conjunction with the exhibit, “Michelangelo: The Man, the Myth,” October 3, 2008.