Salome, the femme fatale. - March 19, 2013

• Mark’s version of John the Baptist’s beheading was used for this post. See: Mark 6:14-29 (ESV)
• Metropolitan Museum of Art: Henri Regnault, Salome (1870). Explore the painting in detail at the Met’s website.
• Related post: “Dancing Seductress: Salome” - November 18, 2011.

Art History in the Digital Age. - March 7, 2013

• Murtha Baca,  Susan Edwards, and Anne Helmreich, ”Rethinking Art History,” recording of live Google+ Hangout, March 4, 2013.
• Murtha Baca, “Rethinking Art History,” The Getty Iris, March 4, 2013.
• Nuria Rodríguez Ortega, ”It’s Time to Rethink and Expand Art History for the Digital Age,” The Getty Iris, March 5, 2013.
• Diane Zorich, “Transitioning to a Digital World: Art History, Its Research Centers, and Digital Scholarship,” Kress Foundation, 2012.
• 3 Pipe Problem, “The Moment of Digital Art History?,” December 2012.

Caravaggio’s Bodies & Shadows at LACMA. - February 8, 2013

• LACMA, Bodies & Shadows: Caravaggio and His Legacy (November 11, 2012 – February 10, 2013), and the accompanying exhibition catalogue, especially the entries by J. Patrice Marandel and Gianni Papi.
• Keith Christiansen, “Caravaggio and “L’esempio davanti del naturale,” Art Bulletin 68 (1986): 421-445.

Skepticism Surrounding Caravaggio Discovery. – July 6, 2012

• Nick Squires, “Italian Art Historians ‘find 100 Caravaggio paintings,’”  The Telegraph. July 5 2012.
• ANSA, ”Caravaggio: scoperti 100 inediti, è Rivoluzione sistema Merisi,” July 6 2012. (Also available in English.)
• Mark Hudson, “Caravaggio discovery: to find 100 new works simply astonishing,” The Telegraph. July 5 2012.
• Nick Squires, “Art world divided over Caravaggio 100 works discovery,” The Telegraph. July 6 2012.
• Frances D’Emilio, “Caravaggio claims spark Italian art world spat,” Seattle Times. July 6 2012.
• AGI.it, “Caravaggio: direttore Musei Vaticani, attribuzione ottimistica,” July 6 2012.
• BBC, “Dozens of Caravaggio sketches ‘discovered,’” July 6 2012.
• Elisabetta Povoledo with Carol Vogel,”Scholars Doubt ‘Rediscovered’ Caravaggio Drawings,” July 6 2012. Note: The NY Times article had not yet been published at the time of writing this post. It contains new quotes from art historians and experts.
• Research published in eBook at Amazon: Young Caravaggio – one hundred rediscovered works by Maurizio Bernardelli Curuz and Adriana Conconi Fedrigolli. In two volumes & available in multiple languages.
• I also posted multiple times today about the discovery on Tumblr under the tag Caravaggio Discovery, and on Facebook.

Caravaggio the Leader. - May 25, 2012

Note: This entry has endnotes at the end. Below, you’ll find nonspecific bibliographic information.

• Helen Langdon, Caravaggio: A Life, 1999.
• Walter Friedlaender, Caravaggio Studies, 1955.
• Walter Friedlaender, “The ‘Crucifixion of St. Peter’: Caravaggio and Reni,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 8, (1945), pp. 152-160.
• Catherine Puglisi, Caravaggio, 2000.
• Richard E. Spear, The ‘Divine’ Guido: Religion, Sex, Money, and Art in the World of Guido Reni, 1997.
• Andrew Graham-Dixon, Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane, 2010.
• Creighton E. Gilbert, Caravaggio and his Two Cardinals, 1995.
• Sebastian Schutze, “Caravaggism in Europe: A Planetary System and its Gravitational Pull,” in Caravaggio and his Followers in Rome, 2011.
• Joseph F. Chorpenning, “Another Look at Caravaggio and Religion,” Artibus et Historiae, 1987.

On Anthropomorphism. - April 4, 2012

• “Notes from the Field,” The Art Bulletin, March 2012. Essays by: Elizabeth King, Carolyn Dean, J.M. Bernstein, and Jane Garnett and Gervase Rosser.

Leave Art to the Professionals (?) - March 18, 2012

• Helen Langdon, Caravaggio: A Life, 1999.
• Peter Robb, M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio, 2001.
• Peter Robb and Duffy & Snellgrove, Speaking with Peter Robb about M.
• David Stone, “Self and Myth in Caravaggio’s David and Goliath Paintings,” in Caravaggio: realism, rebellion, reception, ed. Genevieve Warwick, 2006.

CAA 2012. - March 7, 2012

• Karen J. Lloyd, “A New Samson: Scipione Borghese and the Representation of Nepotism in the Vatican Palace,” presented in the session Art & Architecture in Europe: 1600-1750 (chair: John Beldon Scott), February 25, 2012.
• Jason Ciejka, “Rhetoric and Narrative in the Architecture of Carlo Rainaldi, presented in the session Art & Architecture in Europe: 1600-1750 (chair: John Beldon Scott), February 25, 2012.
• Domenico Bernini, The Life  of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, trans. Franco Mormando, Penn State Press, 2011.
• Franco Mormando, Bernini: His Life and His Rome, University of Chicago Press, 2011.

The Mughal Empire: Jahangir. – February 24, 2012

• Milo Cleveland Beach, “The Gulshan Album and Its European Sources,” Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Vol. 63, No. 332 (1965), pp. 63-91.
• Lajpat Rai, “Review of Akbar the Great Mogul by Vincent Smith,“ Political Science Quarterly , Vol. 33, No. 4 (Dec., 1918), pp. 570-573.
• Fran Pritchett, Columbia University, Jahangir (timeline with art that he commissioned).
• MET, St. Jerome by Keshav Das.
• The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, From the Land of the Taj Mahal: Paintings for India’s Mughal Emperors, 2009.
• Walters Art Gallery, Desire and Devotion: Art from India, Nepal and Tibet in the John & Berthe Ford Collection.
• UCLA coursework from 2008-2010.

Celebrating Romance. - February 14, 2012

• Google Art Project: Titian, Venus of Urbino.
• The Getty, Consuming Passion: Fragonard’s Allegories of Love.
• Sarah McPhee, Bernini’s Beloved: A Portrait of Constanza Piccolomini, forthcoming from Yale University Press.
• Franco Mormando, Bernini: His Life and His Rome, pp. 99-109, for more information about the scandalous end to Constanza and Bernini’s relationship.

Heaven. - January 31, 2012

• Thomas Worthen, Tintoretto’s Paintings for the Banco del Sacramento in S. Margherita,” The Art Bulletin , Vol. 78, No. 4 (Dec., 1996), pp. 707-732.
• F.P.B.  Omaston, “The Paradise of Tintoretto,” 1910.
• Catechism of the Council of Trent, translated by Rev. Donovan, 1829.
• Martin Luther, Sermons on the gospels for the Sundays and principal festivals of the church year, vol. 2, Augustana Book Concern, 1871.

The Death of Higher Education. - January 6, 2012

• William Pannapacker, Over Educated, Underemployed: How to fix higher education, Slate, July 27, 2011.
• Slate, Responding to William Pannapacker. Stop Calling Us Suckers: Humanities Students Strike Back!, August 4, 2011.

The Nativity. - December 22, 2011

• The National Gallery of Art, Audio tour for The Adoration of the Magi by Fra Filippo Lippi & Fra Angelico.
• Catechism of the Council of Trent, translated by Rev. Donovan, 1829.
• St. Ignatius, Spiritual Exercises, 1522-24.

The Annunciation. - December 16, 2011

• Ann Van Dijk, The Angelic Salutation in Early Byzantine and Medieval Annunciation Imagery, The Art Bulletin, Vol. 81, No. 3 (Sep., 1999), pp. 420-436.
• Michael Kimmelman, Caravaggio in Ascendance: An Italian Antihero’s Time to Shine, NY Times, March 9, 2010.
• Catechism of the Council of Trent, translated by Rev. Donovan, 1829.
• Martin Luther, Sermon, Christmas 1531

Vengeful Seductress: Judith. – November 30, 2011

• Mary Garrard & Gloria Steinem, On Artemisia Gentileschi.
• Book of Judith, Douay-Rheims
• Tumblr followers who responded to this inquiry: vivalacacka, angelkissingonasinner, artisandoflove

Sexy Seductress: Potiphar’s Wife. – November 28, 2011

• Recommended read: Richard Spear, Seeing Double: Two Versions of Guercino’s Joseph & Potiphar’s Wife.

Dancing Seductress: Salome. - November 18, 2011

• G. “Salome with the Head of John the Baptist.” Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin, Vol. 19, No. 116 (Dec., 1921), p. 72.

On Halloween, Remember You Will Die. - October 31, 2011

• Atlas Obscura: Chiesa Dei Morti
• Charlene Villasenor-Black. Various Lectures. Art His 109A, Spring 2010. University of California, Los Angeles.

Baroque Spain: El Greco. Death and the Supernatural. - October 10, 2011

• Victor Stoichita, Visionary Experience in the Golden Age of Spanish Spanish Art, 1995. Preview it on Google Books.
• Charlene Villasenor-Black. Various Lectures. Art His 109A, Spring 2010. University of California, Los Angeles.
• Catechism of the Council of Trent, translated by Theodore Alois Buckley, 1852.

Baroque Spain: Devotion on Canvas. - September 30, 2011

• Delphine Fitz Darby, “Review: Ribera by Elizabeth du Gué Trapier.”  The Art Bulletin, Vol. 35, No. 1 (Mar., 1953), pp. 68-74
• Charlene Villasenor-Black. Various Lectures. Art His 109A, Spring 2010. University of California, Los Angeles.

Happy 440th Birthday, Caravaggio! – September 29, 2011

• Philip Sohm, “Caravaggio’s Deaths.”  Art Bulletin, 84,  2002, pp.449-468.

King David: Symbol of Perfection and Justice – September 21, 2011

• Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit, Caravaggio’s Secrets. MIT Press (October Book Edition). 1998.
• David Stone,  “Self and Myth in Caravaggio’s David and Goliath Paintings,” in Caravaggio: realism, rebellion, reception, ed. Genevieve Warwick, 2006.
• Joy Kenseth, “Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures: Another View.” Art Bulletin.  Vol. 63, No. 2 (Jun., 1981), pp. 191-210.

It’s Hard not to Love Caravaggio. - September 8, 2011

Many  phenomenal sources contribute to the way I think about Caravaggio, and therefore directly (or indirectly) affect everything I write about him. A very well compiled list of scholars who have contributed to our understanding of Caravaggio can be found here.

King David: Hero, Sinner, Friend of God - September 7, 2011 (Part 1 of 2)

• Bonnie Bennett and David Wilkins. Donatello. Mt. Kisco: Moyer Bell Limitec, 1984.
• Laurie Schneider Adams. “Donatello’s Bronze David.” The Art Bulletin 55.2 (1973): 213-216.
• Louis Rèau. Iconographie de l’art Chrètien. Vol. 2. Paris: Presses universitaires de France,1955-59. 3 vols.

A Haggardly Beautiful Mary Magdalene - September 6, 2011

• Bonnie Bennett and David Wilkins. Donatello. Mt. Kisco: Moyer Bell Limitec, 1984.
• Martha Levine Dunkelman. “Donatello’s Mary Magdalen: A Model of Courage and Survival.” Women’s Art Journal 26.2 (2005): 10-13.

Dürer and the Man of Sorrows – August 31, 2011

• Douay Rheims Bible (1899 Version).
• Craig Harbison, Dürer and the Reformation: The Problem of the Re-dating of the St. Philip Engraving, Art Bulletin, Vol. 5 No. 3, Sept. 1976: 368-373.
• Martin Marty: Martin Luther: A Life (2004).

The Massacre at Chios - August 24, 2011

• Images came from this website entry about the same painting.

On the Power of Aesthetics and Artistic Intent – August 22, 2011 (Note: Although I read all of the following sources, they did not all make it into the essay. They are, nevertheless, informative.)

• Frieze Magazine, February 2003, Melinda Gay: The Shock of the Old.
• Psychology Today (Blog), 08/12/2009, Anneli Rufus: Can Art Drive Us Crazy?.
• The Telegraph, 07/28/2010, Nick Squires: Scientists Investigate Stendhal Syndrome.
• Neurologia, February 2010, A.L. Guerrero, A. Barcelo Rossello & D. Ezpeleta: Sindrome de Stendhal: origen, naturaleza y presentacion en un grupo de neurologos.

What is Resemblance? - August 4, 2011 (Rev. August 5, 2011)

• Alain de Botton: The Architecture of Happiness (2006).
• Robert S. Nelson & Richard Shiff (eds.): Critical Terms for Art History, 2nd Edition. David Summers, Representation, pp. 3-19.
• John Varriano, Caravaggio and Violence. Storia dell’Arte 97 (1999): 317-328.

What is Art History? - June 28, 2011

• Catholic Encyclopedia: Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez.
• Michael Hatt & Charlotte Klonk: Art History: A Critical Introduction to Its Methods (2006).
• Marvin Trachtenberg: Dominion of the Eye: Urbanism, Art, Power in Early Modern Florence(2008).

Boring History - June 17, 2011

• The Wall Street Journal, 06/15/2011, Stephanie Banchero: Students Stumble Again on Basics of History.
• NY Times, 06/14/2011, Sam Dillon: U.S. Students Remain Poor at History, Tests Show.

The Value of my UCLA Degree – June 3, 2011

• LA Times, 05/19/2011, Alexandra LeTellier: Given Economic Challenges, is College Worth It?.
• Lifehacker, 05/31/2011, Melanie Pinola: What Your College Major is Worth.
• NY Times Economix Blog, 05/19/2011, Catherine Rampell: The College Majors that do the Best in the Job Market.
• NY Times, 05/14/2011, Richard Arum & Josipa Roksa: Your So-Called Education.
• Springfield News-Sun, 06/01/2011, Christopher Magan: Value of College Debated as Costs Rise, Pay Decrases.
• LA Times, 06/02/2011, Richard Arum & Josipa Roksa: College, too easy for its own good.
• Amazon.com: Academically Adrift.
• The New Yorker, 06/06/2011, Louis Menand: Live & Learn: Why We Have College.
• UCLA True Bruin: The Bruins Ethical Standards.