2022 Eleanor Tufts Award

Benito Navarrete Prieto’s book ‘Murillo: Persuasion and Aura‘ is awarded with the 2022 Eleanor Tufts Award of the Society for Iberian Global Art. This book examines how Murillo constructed his paintings and the devices he employed to provoke responses in the viewer, both then and now. Murillo has attracted particular attention from historians since the…

Harvey Miller Catalogue – New Titles (2021-2022)

The 2021-22 issue of our Harvey Miller  Catalogue is now available Discover our newest & forthcoming Harvey Miller titles in the field of Medieval & Early Modern Art History, Sculpture Studies, Cultural History, Art Theory, Architectural History, Drawings, Manuscript Studies,…. including studies on Andrea Mantegna, Rubens, Leonardo da Vinci, Dante, Raphael, Taddeo Di Bartolo, Murillo,…

Matthew Collins on “Reading Dante with Images: A Visual Lectura Dantis”

A Contribution by: Matthew Collins holds a PhD from Harvard University’s Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. His 2018 dissertation was on the early printed illustrations of Dante’s Commedia in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. He has taught at Harvard and at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Scuola…

Herbert L. Kessler, Shira Brisman, Davide Stimilli, and Angelos Chaniotis on “From Kairos to Occasio through Fortuna. Text / Image / Afterlife” by Barbara Baert

Herbert L. Kessler Professor Emeritus, History of Art, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore “As the title itself indicates, Barbara Baert’s From Kairos to Occasio through Fortuna moves. Beginning with the Mantuan grisaille painting of Occasio and Poenitentia in Andrea Mantegna’s style, which Aby Warburg included in his seminal Mnemosyne Atlas, the analysis transgresses the limits of…