A team of specialists addresses a foundational concept as central to early modern thinking as to our own: that the past is always an important part of the present.
Jennifer Cochran Anderson, Ph.D. (2012, Pennsylvania State University) is an independent art historian working in Austin, Texas. She is currently preparing a book project on the historical "afterlives" of Ireland's wooden devotional sculptures dating to the Lordship (1177-1542) and Suppression (1535-1800) eras. Douglas N. Dow, Ph.D. (2006, Pennsylvania State University) is Associate Professor of Art History at Kansas State University. He is the author of Apostolic Iconography and Florentine Confraternities in the Age of Reform (2014); his next book examines Bernardino Poccetti's religious paintings.
