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Claire Farago has published on Leonardo’s writings and Renaissance art theory in The Art Bulletin, Italian Culture, Word & Image, kritisches berichte, and elsewhere. She has written extensively on the circulation of Renaissance culture beyond Italy, and is interested in the complex processes of cultural interaction more generally. Her edited volume Reframing the Renaissance (1995) made one of the first contributions to this interdisciplinary subject and her more recent book Transforming Images (2006), with Donna Pierce, examines cultural identity in New Spain in a postcolonial framework. She has also studied the history of museums and collecting practices in Grasping the World: The Idea of the Museum (2004), with Donald Preziosi, and examined the role of the art historian as an engaged spectator, in Compelling Visuality (2003), with Robert Zwijnenberg. She has held visiting distinguished professorships at other universities, including UCLA and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her current projects deal with the ethics of scholarship and the various ways in which art and media function in contemporary society.

Education

B.A. Wellesley College, 1970
M.A. Brown University, 1980
Ph.D. University of Virginia, 1988

Selected Books

Leonardo da Vinci’s Paragone: A Critical Interpretation, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992.

Reframing the Renaissance: Visual Culture in Europe and Latin America, edited Claire Farago, London-New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.

Compelling Visuality: The Work of Art in and out of History, edited Claire Farago and Robert Zwijnenberg, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.

Grasping the World: the Idea of the Museum, edited Donald Preziosi and Claire Farago, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.

Claire Farago and Donna Pierce with additional contributors, Transforming Images: New Mexican Santos in-between Worlds, University Park: Penn State Press, 2006.

Leonardo da Vinci and the Ethics of Style, edited Claire Farago, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007.

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