The Routledge Companion to Global Renaissance Art

The Routledge Companion to Global Renaissance Art

co-edited with Stephanie Porras. This companion examines the global Renaissance through object-based case studies of artistic production from Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe in the early modern period. The […]


Andrea Mantegna: Humanist Aesthetics, Faith, and the Force of Images

Andrea Mantegna: Humanist Aesthetics, Faith, and the Force of Images

If the fifteenth century in Italy has been seen as the moment when the constellation of disciplines known as “the humanities” begins to take shape, it was also a time […]


Remaking College: Innovation and the Liberal Arts College

Remaking College: Innovation and the Liberal Arts College

with Rebecca Chopp and Susan Frost. As one of the most successful educational enterprises in American history, the residential liberal arts college has long been emulated across all spectrums of […]


France and the Holy Land:  Frankish Culture at the End of the Crusades

France and the Holy Land:  Frankish Culture at the End of the Crusades

with Lisa Mahoney (co-editor). During the First Crusade launched in 1095, thousands of Europeans fought to liberate Jerusalem from the Seljuk Turks. By 1099, they had succeeded, and in the […]


The Book of Kings:  Art, War, and the Morgan Library’s Medieval Picture Bible

The Book of Kings:  Art, War, and the Morgan Library’s Medieval Picture Bible

with William Noel (co-editor).


Why the Museum Matters

Why the Museum Matters

Art museums have played a vital role in our culture, drawing on Enlightenment ideals in shaping ideas, advancing learning, fostering community, and providing spaces of beauty and permanence. In this […]


In That Time: Michael O’Donnell and the Tragic Era of Vietnam

In That Time: Michael O’Donnell and the Tragic Era of Vietnam

In That Time tells the story of the American experience in Vietnam through the life of Michael O’Donnell, a bright young musician and poet who served as a soldier and helicopter […]


Die Kreuzritterbibel/The Morgan Crusader Bible/La Bible des Croisades

Commentary Volume in German, English, and French (Faksimile Verlag Luzern, 1999). Italian translation published as La Bibbia dei Crociati


Art and Crusade in the Age of Saint Louis

Art and Crusade in the Age of Saint Louis

The reign of Louis IX of France is widely recognized as one of the most important in the history of medieval France. Art and the Crusade in the Age of […]


Literati Lenses: Wenren Landscape in Chinese Cinema of the Mao Era

Literati Lenses: Wenren Landscape in Chinese Cinema of the Mao Era

Chinese cinema has a long history of engagement with China’s art traditions, and literati (wenren) landscape painting has been an enduring source of inspiration. Literati Lenses explores this interplay during the Mao […]