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

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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