Truman State University Art Department faculty and alumni participated in the recent Renaissance Society of America annual conference in New York City in late March, 2014.<\/p>\n
Dr. Jasmine Cloud (alumna, Art History; who just recently received her doctorate in Art History from Temple University) presented a paper entitled "In and Out of the Roman Forum: Charting the Properties of Ss. Cosma e Damiano and S. Francesco Romana" based on her archival research on Roman architecture and urban layout.<\/p>\n
In addition, Dr. Julia DeLancey (Art History) and Dr. John Garton (alumnus, Art History; Associate Professpr of Art History at Clark University) co-organized a pair of sessions entitled "Harmonies and Disharmonies in Leonardo 's Approaches ot the Body". In one of those sessions, Dr. Garton presented a paper entitled "Leonardo and Creative Ugliness" and Dr. DeLancey a paper entitled "On Bended Knee: Leonardo da Vinci and the Anatomy of Devotion". The sessions came out of a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, "Leonardo da Vinci: Between Science and Art" held in Florence, Italy in the summer of 2012. The Institute was organized by Dr. Francesca Fiorani (University of Virginia).<\/p>\n
Finally, Dr. Ryan Gregg (alumnus, Art History: Assistant Professor, Webster University) presented a paper entitled "Anachronism as Fact: Vasari's Resurrection of the Porta San Gallo Monastery for Cosimo il Vecchio" in a session called "Reconsidering Premodern Accuracy: Verisimilitude and Truth Claims".<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"