The Agency of Female Typology in Italian Renaissance Paintings

Edward J. Olszewski is Emeritus Professor and former chair of art history at Case Western Reserve University (USA). He has written more than a dozen books on the topics of Italian Renaissance and Baroque art treatises, painting, sculpture, architecture, and master drawings, and articles on topics ranging from Praxiteles’ sculpture to Goya’s portraiture and Black Paintings, as well as Degas’ drawings, Picasso’s Blue Period paintings, and Claes Oldenburg’s sculptures. His research has been supported by the American Philosophical Society, the American Council of Learned Societies, and by Fulbright and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships. His most recent works are; Parmigianino’s Madonna of the Long Neck: A Grace Beyond the Reach of Art, and Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: Kansas City’s Shuttlecocks. He is currently working on a study of the X-ray and infrared reflectance spectroscopy of Raphael’s easel paintings in collaboration with Editech Art Diagnostics in Florence, Italy.