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Salt, Water, & Stone: The Ecology of Art in Renaissance VeniceI

  • Integrated Learning Center, UMass, Room S211 (map)

Christopher Nygren is associate professor of Renaissance and Baroque Art in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. He earned a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on the intersection of religion, philosophy, and art in the Italian Renaissance, and it has been featured in The Art Bulletin, Renaissance Quarterly, Word & Image, Modern Language Notes, and other leading academic journals. 

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