Renaissance and Baroque Paintings

Richard Spear is Associate Professor of Art at Oberlin College and Director of the Allen Memorial Art Museum. He earned his BA at the University of Chicago, prior to graduate studies at Princeton University, where he was awarded his MFA and PhD. A Fulbright Scholar to Italy in 1966–67, and a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies during 1971–72, he has published numerous articles in various scholarly journals, including the Burlington Magazine, the Art Bulletin, the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, and Master Drawings. He organized the exhibition and wrote the catalogue of Caravaggio and His Followers, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1971, and currently is preparing a monograph with catalogue raisonné on Domenichino.