offers a fascinating account of the display of art-a category taken broadly to include any visual element found within a palace interior in the 16th-century residences of Rome's elite

Eminent German art historian Willibald Sauerländer certainly thinks so

Paul Farber is currently completing his doctorate in American studies at the University of Michigan

Beato came of age in the Ottoman capital of Constantinople

Edited by Jeanne Marie Teutonico and Frank Matero

Discourse on Sacred and Profane Images stocking stuffers offers a fascinating account ofGabriele Paleotti Introduction by Paolo Prodi Translated by William McCuaig In the wake of the Counter Reformation, Cardinal Gabriele Paleotti, the archbishop of Bologna, wrote a remarkable treatise on art during a time when the Church feared rampant abuse in the arts. Translated into English here for the first time, Paleottis Discourse on Sacred and Profane Images argues that art should address a broad audience and explains the painters