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David Freedberg
art historian
Columbia University - Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America
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David Freedberg is Professor of Art History at Columbia University and Director of the Italian Academy, where he has set up an Art and Neurosciences project. He is known for his work on Italian cultural history and on the history of Dutch and Flemish art, as well as for his many works on the history of censorship and iconoclasm in literature and art. He was first educated in South Africa, took his BA at Yale (in classical languages) and his DPhil in Art History at Oxford. Before coming to Columbia in 1984, he taught Art History at the Courtauld Institute, London. In addition to the noted The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response (1989), his books include: Dutch Landscape Prints of the Seventeenth Century (1980); Rubens: The Life of Christ after the Passion (1984); Iconoclasts and their Motives (1985). He has just published The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, his Friends, and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History, which deals with the natural historical discoveries of the first modern scientific academy, the Academy of Lynxes. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
Author of the following papers featured on interdisciplines.org:
· Pictorial composition and emotional
response
· Composition picturale et réponse émotionelle
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