Her wide-ranging essay also situates the Villa Borghese among the sumptuous palaces and suburban villas of Rome's collectors of antiquities and outlines the renovated Casino's pivotal role in the historic transition from the semiprivate princely collection to the modern public museum

Carole Paul is a scholar of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century art in Italy

Christian saints have been the objects of reverence and fascination throughout the past two millennia

and the only known illuminations by the Cologne painter called the Master of Saint Veronica

and conservation

Death and Resurrection in Art dekooning Her wide-ranging essay also situatesEnrico de Pascale As the one truly unavoidable reality of human existence, death is also one of the oldest and most common themes in the history of art. From Egyptian tomb paintings and battle scenes on Greek vases by anonymous artists, to depictions of the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus by the great Renaissance masters, to contemporary encounters with these subjects by such artists as Damien Hirst and Andres Serrano, the contents of this book