Studies in Iconography Volume 38

Kirk Ambrose is professor and chair of the department of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is author of The Nave Sculpture of Vézelay: The Art of Monastic Viewing (2006) and The Marvellous and the Monstrous in the Sculpture of Twelfth-Century Europe (2013)Robert Couzin After practising law for several decades, Robert Couzin enrolled in the graduate Department of Art History at the University of Toronto in 2006, receiving his PhD in 2013 (Dissertation: "Death in a New Key: The Christian Turn of Roman Sarcophagi.") In his new career as an independent scholar, he has published an article examining fourth-century Christian funerary demographics (in JRA), and a monograph on the traditio legis (with Archaeopress).Danielle B. Joyner is an Assistant Visiting Professor in the Division of Art History at Southern Methodist University. Her first book, Painting the 'Hortus Deliciarum': Medieval Women, Wisdom, and Time (Penn State Press, 2016), explores aspects of "time" as they were pictured and discussed in a twelfth-century manuscript made by and for the canonnesses at Hohenbourg in Alsace. Kim Butler Wingfield is Associate Professor and Director of the Art History Program at American University. Her first book Raphael's Madonnas: From Poetry to Thievery (2017), analyzes the sacred poetics of the Madonna paintings that spanned Raphael's career. Gerald B. Guest is a professor of art history at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio. His scholarly work is principally concerned with the figural arts of Gothic France and has appeared in Speculum, Studies in Iconography, and the Journal of Glass Studies, among other venues.

• ArticlesKirk Ambrose. Eyes Dim with Age at Vézelay Robert Couzin. Syncretism and Segregation in Early Christian Art Danielle B. Joyner. A Savin Bush in the Cloister: Art and Nature in the Plan of St. Gall Gerald B. Guest. The Beautiful Lucifer as an Object of Aesthetic Contemplation in the Central Middle Ages Cyril Gerbron. The Stone and the Dream: On Piero della Francesca's Resurrection Kim Butler Wingfield. Networks of Knowledge: Inventing Theology in the Stanza della Segnatura Reviews