Michelangelo''s David: Florentine History and Civic Identity

About John T. Paoletti

John T. Paoletti is Professor of the History of Art Emeritus and the William R. Kenan Professor of the Humanities Emeritus at Wesleyan University. He taught the history of Italian Renaissance art and of the art of the twentieth century from 1972 to 2009. He received Wesleyan's Binswanger Prize for Excellence in Teaching and the College Art Association's Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award. He has been a Fellow at the School of Historical Studies the Institute of Advanced Study Princeton and a visiting professor at the Villa I Tatti. From 1996 to 2000 he was the editor-in-chief of The Art Bulletin. He is co-author with Gary Radke of Art in Renaissance Italy now in its fourth edition. He is co-editor with Roger Crum of Renaissance Florence: A Social History (Cambridge University Press 2006).