Publications

Books:

Rembrandt’s Religious Prints.  The Jack and Alfrieda Feddersen Collection of Rembrandt Etchings.  Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press and Snite Museum of Art, September, 2017

Editor, The Court Cities of Northern Italy: Bologna, Ferrara, Mantua, Urbino, Pesaro, Rimini, Parma, and Piacenza. Cambridge University Press series, The Artistic Centers of Renaissance Italy edited by Marcia Hall.  Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, 2010, xxvii + 423 + 35 ill.

The Este Monuments and Urban Development in Renaissance Ferrara.  Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997, c. 336 pp. + 50 ill.

Editor, Art and Politics in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy: 1250-1515.  Acts of the Notre Dame Conference.  Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1990, viii + 231 + 77 ill. 

Fifteenth-Century North Italian Painting and Drawing: An Annotated Bibliography.  Boston: G.K. Hall, 1986, xxxi + 223 pp.

Articles:

“Rembrandt’s Etching of The Stoning of St. Stephen and the Remonstrant Controversy.” Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 78 (2015): 94-105.

“Introduction,” in Charles M. Rosenberg, ed., The Court Cities of Northern Italy, pp. 1-20.  Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

“Borso d’Este e il Montesanto,” in Tracce dei luoghi.  Tracce della storia.  L’Editore che inseguiva la Bellezza.  Scritti in onore di Franco Cosimo Panini, pp. 113-22.   Rome: Donzelli Editore, 2008.

“Response to James Cuno,” in Robin Rhodes, ed., The Acquisition and Exhibition of Classical Antiquities:  Professional, Legal, and Ethical Perspectives, pp. 27-30.  Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008.

“Money Talks: Numismatic Propaganda under Alfonso I d’Este,” L’eta’ di Alfonso I e la pittura del Dosso: Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi Ferrara, Palazzina di Marfisa d’Este, 9-12 dicembre 1998.  Modena: Pannini, 2004, pp. 145-64, figs. 46-52.

“Leonardo and the Creative Act,” Sacred Heart University Review.  XXII.1-2 (Fall 2001/Spring 2002, pub. 2004): 44-68.

“A Rembrandt Self-portrait and tronie,” in Face to Face, Exhibition Catalogue, Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 2003, pp. 6-11.

“Alfonso I d’Este, Michelangelo and the Man Who Bought Pigs,” in Revaluing Renaissance Art, Rupert Shepherd and Gabriel Neher, eds., London: Ashgate Press, 2000, pp. 89-100.

“Ferrarese Coinage and the Ideology of Power from Obizzo III to Borso d’Este,” in L’Aquila Bianca.  Studi di storia estense per Luciano Chiappini. R. Varese and A. Samaritani, eds., Atti e Memorie della Deputazione Provinciale Ferrarese di Storia Patria, Ser. IV, vol. 17, Ferrara: Corbo editore, 2000, pp. 109-133.

“In the Footsteps of the Prince: A Look at Renaissance Ferrara.”  Nexus Network Journal, [http://www.leonet.it/culture/nexus/network_journal/] 1.4 (October, 1999):43-64.

“Virtue, Piety and Affection: Some Portraits by Domenico Ghirlandaio,” in Il ritratto e la memoria.  Material 2, ed. Augusto Gentile, Philippe Morel and Claudia Cieri Via.  Rome: Bulzoni, 1993, pp. 173-195.

“The Este of Ferrara in the Fifteenth Century,” Schifanoia 10 (1990, published in 1992): 15-18.

“Arte e politica alle corti di Lionello e Borso d’Este,” in Saggi.  Le Muse e il Principe.  Arte di corte nel Rinascimento padano.  Modena: Cosimo Panini, 1991, pp. 39-52.

“Borsian and Ferrarese Imagery in the Heavenly Zone in the Sala dei Mesi,” Schifanoia 5 (1989): 43-49. (also published as “Immagini di Borso e aspetti della Ferrara del tempo nella fascia superiore del Salone dei Mesi,” in Atlante di Schifanoia, ed. R. Varese, Modena: Cosimo Panini, 1990, pp. 81-4.)

“The Influence of Northern Graphics on Painting in Renaissance Ferrara: Matteo da Milano,” Bollettino annuale dei Musei Ferraresi 15 (1985/87 – pub. 1988): 61-74.

“Raphael and the Florentine Istoria,” Center for Advanced  Studies in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington.  Symposium Series V.  Raphael before Rome. Edited by James Beck.  Studies in the History of Art.  17 (1986):175-88.

“The Double Portrait of Federico and Guidobaldo da Montefeltro: Power, Wisdom and Dynasty.”  Federico di Montefeltro.  Le Arti.  Rome: Bulzoni, 1986, pp. 213-22.

“Trek Along the Museum Trail,” Gifted Children Monthly  6.9 (October, 1985):1-3, 20.

“The Flowering of Dutch Culture,” in On Loan from Holland: A Dutch Treat. Selections of XVII and XVIII Century Dutch Art from the Collection of Dr. A.C.R. Dreesmann.  The Snite Museum of Art, The University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, 1982, pp. 8-12.

“Courtly Decorations and the Decorum of Interior Space,” La corte e lo spazio: Ferrara Estense. Ed. Giuseppe Papagano and Amedeo Quondam.  Rome: Bulzoni, 1982, pp. 529-44.

“The Bible of Borso d’Este: Inspiration and Use,” in Cultura figurativa ferrarese tra XV e XVI secolo.  Arte e Grafica.  Venice, 1981, pp. 51-73.

“The Use of Celebrations in Public and Semi-Public Events in Fifteenth-Century Ferrara,” in Il teatro italiano del Rinascimento.  Ed. Maristella Panizza Lorch.  Milan, 1980, pp. 521-35.

“The Iconography of the Sala degli stucchi in the Palazzo Schifanoia in Ferrara,” The Art Bulletin 61 (1979): 377-83.

“The Erculean Addition to Ferrara: Contemporary Reactions and Pragmatic Considerations,” ACTA: The Fifteenth  Century (SUNY at Binghamton) 5 (1978):49-67. (Reprinted as “L’Addizione Erculea di Ferrara,” in La Strenna della Ferrariae Decus, Ferrara, 1980-81, pp. 161-74.)

“Francesco del Cossa’s Letter Reconsidered,” Bollettino annuale dei Musei Ferraresi 5/6 (1975/6 pub. 1978): 11-15.

“Per il bene di…nostra ciptà: Borso d’Este and the Certosa of Ferrara,” Renaissance Quarterly 29 (1976):329-40.

“Notes on the Borsian Addition to the Palazzo Schifanoia,” Bollettino annuale dei Musei Ferraresi  2 (1973): 32-42.

“Some New Documents Concerning Donatello’s Unexecuted Monument to Borso d’Este in Modena,” Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz  17 (1973): 149-52.

“A Drawing by Matthias Zündt, An Engraving by Hans Sebald Beham, and A Seventeenth-Century Tankard,” The University of Michigan Museum of Art Bulletin N.S. 5 (1971): 19-25.

“A Perceptual Analysis of Cubist Object Treatment,” Artforum (April, 1971): 30-36.