Patricia Emison is a specialist in Renaissance and Baroque art and Professor of Art History at University of New Hampshire. Her previous publications include The Shaping of Art History: Meditations on a Discipline and The Simple Art: Printed Images in an Age of Magnificence, as well as numerous publications in Renaissance Studies, Art Bulletin and The Burlington Magazine.

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