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Marcia B. Hall is Carnell Professor of Renaissance Art at Temple University. She is the series editor of Artistic Centers of the Italian Renaissance and editor of the first volume in the series Rome (Cambridge University Press 2005). She is the author of Renovation and Counter-Reformation; Color and Meaning; After Raphael; Michelangelo: The Frescoes of the Sistine Chapel; and The Sacred Image in the Age of Art. She is the editor of volumes including Color and Technique in Renaissance Painting; The Princeton Raphael Symposium (with John Shearman); Raphael's 'School of Athens' (Cambridge University Press 1997); The Cambridge Companion to Raphael (Cambridge University Press 2005); Michelangelo's 'Last Judgment' (Cambridge University Press 2004); and most recently The Sensuous in the Counter-Reformation Church (with Tracy E. Cooper Cambridge University Press 2013). Thomas Willette is Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Massimo Stanzione (with Sebastian Schütze) and the editor of Art History in the Age of Bellori (with Janis Bell Cambridge University Press 2008). He has contributed essays on Neapolitan painting and art historiography to various periodicals and anthologies including Ricerche sul'600 napoletano Napoli nobilissima New Vico Studies the Journal of Modern Italian Studies and the volume Re-Reading Leonardo: The Treatise on Painting across Europe. He was awarded an NEH fellowship for his current research on the reception history of the autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini.