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Patrick Hunt presented a paper in Venice, Italy at RSA 2010 VENICE - RENAISSANCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA 56th Annual Meeting, April 7-11. His paper on 'Irony and Realism in Caravaggio's Penitent Magdalen' was given at Università Ca’ Foscari - Palazzo Malcanton-Marcorà.

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Patrick teaches at Stanford University (since 1993) and is also currently an Associate at the U.C.L.A. Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Among other venues, he has peer-reviewed publications in the RenaIssance Society of America's RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY (2007 & 2008) as well as several published books including his CARAVAGGIO (London, 2004), REMBRANDT: His Life in Art (2006; 2nd ed. 2007) and RENAISSANCE VISIONS: Myth and Art (2008). Patrick was published on the life and work of the artist Gustav Klimt in Vienna in an encyclopedia entry in 2008 in the series volume, GREAT LIVES IN HISTORY, 2Oth Century.

Recent Posts : E-Journal Articles On Art, Myth & Literature

  Philolog : Classical connections - commentary and critique
  Caravaggio's Mary Magdalene, Ultimate Temptress in Text or Tradition?
  Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: From Paleoclimates to the Present
  Riza-i ‘Abbasi and The Poetry of Safavid Persian Painting
  Caravaggio's RAISING OF LAZARUS (1609): New Observations
  Titian's BACCHUS AND ARIADNE (1523) from Classical Art and Literature
  Pallas Athene of Gustav Klimt: Eyes of a Goddess
  Goya, Friedrich and Romanticism: Reification of Nature
  Andrea Mantegna’s Samson and Delilah
  Abbé Suger and a Medieval Theory of Light: Lux, Lumen, Illumination
  Byzantine Art as Propaganda: Justinian and Theodora at Ravenna
  Rembrandt and Ovid: The Abduction of Europa, 1632; Metamorphoses II.849-59
  Arborisms in Ovid’s Baucis and Philemon from Metamorphoses 8.620-720
  Imperium in the Pantheon of Rome and its Pavimentum
  Trajan's Roman Decennial Bust in the British Museum
  Glykon's Herakles Sculpture as Myth
  Aeneid XII.383-440 as Inspiration for Ancient Art
  Ekphrasis or Not? Ovid (Met. 8.183-235 ) in Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus



 
ren_visions   "Myth and Art in Ekphrasis" ... Whether ancient or modern in its applications, Ekphrasis is an ancient Greek word that essentially has to do with ...

Available in Fall 2010


ren_visions   "Renaissance Visions: Myth and Art" ... the book transports the reader into an era devoted to beauty and myth. Learn more about this book.

Available in 2008 onward



  Caravaggio, the outlaw, heretic, murderer, and sensualist. Learn more about this book.

Available in 2004 onward



  Only the Greatest Masters and Geniuses of the first rank are easily called by one name. Learn more about htis book.


Available in 2006 onward


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