EventsThe New Social Environment#1352
Raphael: Sublime Poetry
Featuring Cammy Brothers, Christian Kleinbub, Alexander Nagel, and Jason Rosenfeld
Tuesday, May 5, 2026 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Art historians Cammy Brothers, Christian Kleinbub, and Alexander Nagel join Rail Editor-at-Large Jason Rosenfeld for a conversation on Zoom.
In this Talk
Cammy Brothers

Photo by Nile Scott
Professor Cammy Brothers, of Northeastern University, specializes in Italian Renaissance, Mediterranean, and Spanish art and architecture. She is the author of two monographs, Michelangelo, Drawing and the Invention of Architecture (Yale University Press, 2008, winner of the CAA Morey Prize) and Giuliano da Sangallo and the Ruins of Rome (Princeton University Press, 2022), as well as a frequent art critic for the Wall Street Journal, for which she most recently reviewed the Raphael exhibition at the Met. She is the co-editor, with Kathleen Christian, of the book series, All’Antica: Early Modern Perspectives on the Antique, for Harvey Miller Press.
Christian Kleinbub

Christian K. Kleinbub was Professor of Art History at Ohio State University and is now Co-Director of the New Foundation for Art History. His books include Vision and the Visionary in Raphael (2011), winner of the 2013 Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities from the Council of Graduate Schools, and Michelangelo’s Inner Anatomies (2020). Other publications on subjects such as the visibility of angels, representational conflicts between antiquarianism and Christianity, the senses, printmaking, and the paragone of painting and sculpture, have appeared in edited volumes and leading specialist journals such as The Art Bulletin, Renaissance Quarterly, Word and Image, and The Burlington Magazine. His current book project is focused on Leonardo da Vinci.
Alexander Nagel
Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU Alexander Nagel’s interest in art and religious reform produced Michelangelo and the Reform of Art (2000, winner of the Renaissance Society of America’s Gordan book prize), and The Controversy of Renaissance Art (2011, winner of the College Art Association’s Morey book prize). His interest in the multiple temporalities of art led to the publication of Anachronic Renaissance (co-authored with Christopher Wood, 2010) and Medieval Modern: Art out of Time (2012). His current work addresses questions of orientation and configurations of place in Renaissance art and culture. In 2016, he received an NEH Fellowship for a collaborative project (with Elizabeth Horodowich, NMSU) entitled Amerasia: A Renaissance Discovery.
Jason Rosenfeld

We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨