I focus in this article on Florentine texts from the sixteenth century in which the authors describe intense affective responses to the Last Judgment (and Michelangelo the artist), and the relationship these responses bear to...
By 1906, when Charles Lang Freer officially donated his collection to the Smithsonian, the fifty-two-year-old retired railroad industrialist had acquired thousands of objects from many parts of the globe. Although he began as a...
