Below follows the table of contents for Aurora, The Journal of the History of Art, Volume IX, 2008.  Information on subscriptions, submissions, board of advisors, etc., is available at our website at http://www.aurorajournal.org.  

 

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Lilian H. Zirpolo, Ph.D.

Independent Art Historian

Co-Editor/Co-Publisher, Aurora, The Journal of the History of Art

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Aurora, The Journal of the History of Art, Volume IX, 2008

Table of Contents:

 

 

Botticelli’s Birth of Venus as Wedding Painting                 

JANE C. LONG                                                                           

 

Severed Torsos and Metaphorical Transformations:  Christina of Sweden’s Sale delle Muse and Clytie in the Palazzo Riario Corsini

LILIAN H. ZIRPOLO                                                                  

 

The Last Supper by Marcos Zapata (c. 1753:  A Meal of Bread, Wine, and Guinea Pig

ALLISON LEE PALMER                                                            

 

Allegorizing Aryanism:  Fernand Cormon’s The Human Races                  

MARIA P. GINDHART                                                               

 

Women, Agriculture, and Civilization in Diego Rivera’s Murals of Chapingo

DINA COMISARENCO MIRKIN                                                 

 

Falling/Failing 9/11:  Eric Fischl’s Tumbling Woman Debacle

RANDALL VAN SCHEPEN                                                        

 

 

Book Reviews

 

Ann Roberts, Dominican Women and Renaissance Art:  The Convent of San Domenico of Pisa

KAREN SCOTT                                                                       

 

Luke Syson, ed., Renaissance Siena.  Art for a City

 

Fabrizio Nevola, Siena:  Constructing the Renaissance City

TIMOTHY B. SMITH                                                                 

 

Kelly Donahue-Wallace, Art and Architecture of Viceregal Latin America, 1521-1821

DELIA A. COSENTINO