Anne H. Muraoka received her PhD in art history from Temple University, Philadelphia, specializing in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art, and in particular Counter-Reformation painting. She is currently Assistant Professor of Art History at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, where she also serves as the Art History Program Director. She is a recipient of the J. William Fulbright Fellowship (Rome, Italy, 2006–2007) and a Summer Research Fellowship (2013) from the Office of Research at Old Dominion University. Among her publications are two lengthy contributions to Oxford Bibliographies Online. She has presented her research on Caravaggio, Gabriele Paleotti, and Carlo Borromeo at several professional conferences, including the Renaissance Society of America, Sixteenth-Century Society, and College Art Association conferences.

• Contents: Sacred Art before the Council of Trent – Carlo Borromeo’s Milan: Building Bridges to the Sacred via Word, Deed, and Image – Canon Reformulation in the Age of Counter-Reformation – Establishing His Name: Caravaggio in Rome, 1592-1599 – Caravaggio’s Public Roman Works – Caravaggio’s Patrons and the Cultivation of Humility – Scaling the Ladder to the Divine with Bare Feet.

Anne H. Muraoka received her PhD in art history from Temple University, Philadelphia, specializing in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art, and in particular Counter-Reformation painting. She is currently Assistant Professor of Art History at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, where she also serves as the Art History Program Director. She is a recipient of the J. William Fulbright Fellowship (Rome, Italy, 2006–2007) and a Summer Research Fellowship (2013) from the Office of Research at Old Dominion University. Among her publications are two lengthy contributions to Oxford Bibliographies Online. She has presented her research on Caravaggio, Gabriele Paleotti, and Carlo Borromeo at several professional conferences, including the Renaissance Society of America, Sixteenth-Century Society, and College Art Association conferences.

• Contents: Sacred Art before the Council of Trent – Carlo Borromeo’s Milan: Building Bridges to the Sacred via Word, Deed, and Image – Canon Reformulation in the Age of Counter-Reformation – Establishing His Name: Caravaggio in Rome, 1592-1599 – Caravaggio’s Public Roman Works – Caravaggio’s Patrons and the Cultivation of Humility – Scaling the Ladder to the Divine with Bare Feet.