The rhetoric of “excellence” is pervasive across the academy. It is used to refer to research outputs as well as researchers, theory and education, individuals and organizations, from art history to zoology. But does “excellence” actually mean anything? Does this pervasive narrative of “excellence” do any good? Drawing on a range of sources we…[Read more]

The rhetoric of “excellence” is pervasive across the academy. It is used to refer to research outputs as well as researchers, theory and education, individuals and organizations, from art history to zoology. But does “excellence” actually mean anything? Does this pervasive narrative of “excellence” do any good? Drawing on a range of sources we…[Read more]

The rhetoric of “excellence” is pervasive across the academy. It is used to refer to research outputs as well as researchers, theory and education, individuals and organizations, from art history to zoology. But does “excellence” actually mean anything? Does this pervasive narrative of “excellence” do any good? Drawing on a range of sources we…[Read more]

Review of the most recent edition of the classic and still standard handbook of the history of the literature of art, by Austrian art historian Julius von Schlosser (1866-1938)

Study of the form censorship took in two variant editions of Carl Albrecht Bernoulli’s Franz Overbeck und Friedrich Nietzsche: Eine Freundschaft 2 vols. (Jena: E. Diederichs, 1908)

Argues for Dante’s impact on Leonardo da Vinci’s famous “childhood memory.”

Studies a unique copy of the pioneering monograph on Leonardo’s own personal library, and the fate of that very copy across the years, as it passed from scholar to scholar, all intent upon identifying the titles on Leonardo’s bookshelves.

Studies a unique copy of the pioneering monograph on Leonardo’s own personal library, and the fate of that very copy across the years, as it passed from scholar to scholar, all intent upon identifying the titles on Leonardo’s bookshelves.

Invited response to “Hubertus Kohle, “Kunstgeschichte und Digital Humanities. Einladung zu einer Debatte/Art History and the Digital Humanities. Invitation to a Debate”