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Steven Ostrow

Steven Ostrow

612-624-4500

Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • Church history/spirituality
  • 17th-century Italian sculpture, specializing in the Counter Reformation, Bernini, the role of images in communicating political and religious ideas

Educational Background

  • Ph.D.: History of Art and Architecture, Princeton University, 1987.

Publications

  • Dosso’s Fate: Painting and Court Culture in Renaissance Italy. Ostrow, Steven F, Getty Research Institute, Author, 1998.
  • "Playing with the Paragone: The Reliefs of Pietro Bernini": Ostrow, Steven F, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, 67 329-364, 2004.
  • "The Counter-Reformation and the End of the Century": Ostrow, Steven F, M. Hall, Cambridge University Press, Rome—Artistic Centers of the Italian Renaissance, 246-320, 2005.
  • "The Discourse of Failure in Seventeenth-Century Rome: Prospero Bresciano’s Moses": Ostrow, Steven F, Art Bulletin, LXXVIII, Number 2 , June 2006.
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