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The Art Bulletin
The Art Bulletin publishes scholarship in all aspects of art history as practiced in the academy, museums, and other institutions. The Art Bulletin publishes peer-reviewed scholarly articles and reviews in the area of art history.
Articles from Vol. 82, No. 1, March
Aretino and Michelangelo, Dolce and Titian: Femmina, Masculo, Grazia
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. . . you could truly say it was maidenly for a boy or boyish for a girl.-Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.322-23(1) Between October 1545 and March 1546 Titian resided in Rome under the auspices of the Farnese. Little more than a decade earlier the family patriarch...
"Excellent Offerings": The Lausos Collection in Constantinople
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Bell & Howell Information and Learning: Greek characters omitted. In 324 C.E., the emperor Constantine the Great (r. 324-37) founded the city of Constantinople as a new imperial capital on the site of the old Greco-Roman town of Byzantium. In so...
Fact, Fiction, Hearsay: Notes on Vasari's Life of Piero Di Cosimo
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"I should prefer to consider the artists," Bernard Berenson wrote in 1938, "as discarnate torch-bearers, with no civic existence whatsoever."1 This famous remark-reflecting a view tacitly shared by many art historians-was made a propos of Berenson's...
Minimalism and Biography
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Ever greater, apparently indelible, claims are being made for Minimalism as a movement occupying "a place in the second half of our century akin to the one held by Cubism in the first half,"1 or as crucially defining the very cusp between late modernism...
"Per Ornato Della Citta": Siena's Strada Romana and Fifteenth-Century Urban Renewal
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On January 19, 1468, a cloth merchant named Paolo di Antonio di Vitello petitioned the Sienese government for financial incentives to help him restore his house in Siena.1 Paolo referred to the "great beauty of the whole city and satisfaction of all...
The Birth Date, Ealy Life, and Career of Piero Di Cosimo
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Among the many biographical uncertainties surrounding Piero di Cosimo (whose familiar name derives from his teacher, Cosimo Rosselli), the ambiguity of his birth date has been one of the most obstinate. The confusion over the birth date has persisted...
Unfinished Homage: Manet's Burial and Baudelaire
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Little precise documentation exists for Edouard Manet's The Burial, a painting that has been in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York since 1909 (Fig. 1).1 The work, which Manet listed in an inventory of his works as "L'Enterrement...
