Commonwealth Professor in the McIntire Department of Art at the University of Virginia, Paul Barolsky teaches and writes about Renaissance art and literature. His most recent book, Michelangelo and the Finger of God, was published in 2003 by the Georgia Museum of Art in its Issues in Art History series.

Also In VQR

• The Cheerfulness of Dutch Art
• Leonardo, Satan, and the Mystery of Modern Art
• The Fable of Failure In Modern Art
• THE "MEANING" OF VERMEER
• Fables of Art
• Lord Byron's Persona
• The Painter Who Almost Became A Cheese
• The Vision of Remrrandt
• The Metamorphoses of Michelangelo
• The Case of the Domesticated Aesthete