Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Christy Anderson is associate professor of art history at the University of Toronto. Her books include European Architecture, 1400-1600 (in the Oxford History of Art) and Inigo Jones and the Classical Tradition. Fusible Stones and Solidified Juices: The Materials of Renaissance Building is forthcoming.
Michael Baxandall (1933-2008) was professor of the history of the classical tradition at the Warburg Institute, London, as well as, later in his career, professor of art history at the University of California, Berkeley, and A. D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell. He was Slade Professor of Art at Oxford in 1974-75. The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany received the Mitchell Prize in art history; his other books include Words for Pictures, Patterns of Intention, Shadows and Enlightenment, Giotto and the Orators, Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy, and (with Svetlana Alpers) Tiepolo and the Pictorial Intelligence. In 1999 a group of art historians published a volume of essays on methodology titled About Michael Baxandall.
Paul Crossley, currently Slade Professor of the History of Art at Cambridge University, is emeritus professor of art history at the Courtauld Institute, London. A fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the author of Gothic Architecture in the Reign of Kasimir the Great: Church Architecture in Lesser Poland, 1320-1370, as well as coauthor of Medieval Art and Its Intellectual Context and Medieval Architecture and Sculpture in the North West. He coedited Architecture and Language: Constructing Identity in European Architecture, c. 1000-c.1650 and has published an updated edition of Paul Frankl's Gothic Architecture.
Georges Didi-Huberman is professor of art history and theory at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales as well as an honorary member of the Berlin Center for Literary and Cultural Research. A recipient of the College Art Association Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award and of the Aby Warburg Foundation's Hans-Reimer Prize, he has curated several exhibitions of contemporary art, including "L'Empreinte" at the Centre Pompidou, and is the author of some thirty books. His works in English translation include Fra Angelico: Dissemblance and Figuration, Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière, Confronting Images: Questioning the Ends of a Certain History of Art, Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz, Atlas: How to Carry the World on One's Back, and Alfredo Jaar: The Politics of Images. Shane Lillis teaches at the University of Savoie, France, and is the translator of Georges Didi-Huberman's books Atlas and Images in Spite of All. [End Page 188]
Carlo Ginzburg, a recipient of the International Balzan Prize and the Aby Warburg Prize, is Franklin D. Murphy Professor Emeritus of Italian Renaissance Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, as well as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a corresponding fellow of the British Academy. His books, translated into more than twenty languages, include The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller; The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; The Enigma of Piero della Francesca; Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method; Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath; The Judge and the Historian: Marginal Notes on a Late-Twentieth-Century Miscarriage of Justice; History, Rhetoric, and Proof; Wooden Eyes: Nine Reflections on Distance; and No Island Is an Island: Four Glances at English Literature in a World Perspective.
Anthony Grafton, currently president of the American Historical Association, is Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton. A recipient of the Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award and the International Balzan Prize, he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a corresponding fellow of the British Academy. His many books include Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship; Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance; Cardano's Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer; Defenders of the Text; Forgers and Critics; What Was History?; Bring Out Your Dead; Commerce with the Classics; Codex in Crisis; The Footnote: A Curious History; and Worlds Made...
