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Description: The Power of Color: Five Centuries of European Painting
~This book has taken a scholarly lifetime to conceive, but its present form has been given shape in the past five years with the aid of Temple University and many generous people. A grant from Temple’s Humanities and Arts Program Award defrayed the cost of images and permissions, and a sabbatical leave in 2016–17 provided me with the free time to write. I...
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This book has taken a scholarly lifetime to conceive, but its present form has been given shape in the past five years with the aid of Temple University and many generous people. A grant from Temple’s Humanities and Arts Program Award defrayed the cost of images and permissions, and a sabbatical leave in 2016–17 provided me with the free time to write. I want to thank the students in my seminars in 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017, who discussed the sources and literature and who eventually read chapters and commented on them. The library at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, with the help of the wonderfully accommodating staff, served my research needs.
The writing has taken place over the past two years assisted crucially by many kind, smart people. I have appealed to conservation scientists and curators Barbara Berrie, Jill Dunkerton, Melanie Gifford, Micha Leeflang, Marika Spring, and Carl Strehlke shamelessly for help, as I have to those rare art historians who are knowledgeable about materials: Molly Faries, Andrea Kirsh, and Louisa Matthew. I have prevailed upon patient colleagues to read and advise me about chapters where their expertise is much greater than mine: Paul Barolsky, Therese Dolan, Estelle Lingo, Peter Lukehart, Gerald Silk, Larry Silver, William Wallace, and Robert Williams. Colleagues both at Temple and elsewhere have answered my questions, helped with images, and given me support: Costanza Barbieri, Tracy Cooper, Una d’Elia, Jill Luedke, Lorenzo Pericolo, and Ashley West. Friends and students—former and present—have listened and read and commented: Sarah Barton, Ellen Gayda, Laurie Glover, Gilles Heno-Coe, and Timothy Temple. I particularly want to thank four of my present graduate students at Temple who have worked as my research assistant, sharing their knowledge of bibliography and their digitizing and editorial skills: Bethany Farrell, Tiffany Hunt, Megan Reddick, and, in the proofs stage, Jessica Anders. Among my valued friends I count two editors, whose advice I particularly esteem, Gillian Malpass and Beatrice Rehl. I add my present editor, Amy Canonico, who has been a wonderfully helpful counselor in shaping the final form of this manuscript. Also at Yale I thank Raychel Rapazza, who can answer any question, and always with cheerful goodwill, and Patricia Fidler, who first expressed interest in this book.
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