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November 8, 2015
Felicia M. Else, Associate Professor of Art History at Gettysburg College , shares her experience as a 2013 IAS Research & Publication Grant winner.

September 10, 2013
On this day in 1277, King Charles I of Naples wrote a letter granting permission to sculptor Arnolfo di Cambio to leave Rome for Perugia to begin work on a fountain for the city’s Piazza Maggiore.

August 22, 2013
On this day in 1582, Florentine sculptor Bartolomeo Ammanati published a letter addressed to the Accademia di San Luca (artists’ guild) denouncing the public display of nude sculpture, including his own Neptune Fountain in the Piazza della Signoria of Florence (1560-75).