Megan Holmes

Megan Holmes is a professor of Italian Renaissance art at the University of Michigan, with an interest in religion and popular culture, iconoclasm, miraculous images, and material culture.
A small gold-ground panel painting has been brought out of storage and placed upon an easel for my viewing in a curatorial office at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this provisional display, this painting stimulates reflections about the historical spiritual imagination.
Bernardo Daddi, St. Reparata Tortured with Red-hot Irons, c. 1340, tempera on panel. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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