I find artists' sketches and preparatory studies especially rich in potential insights, and drawings are frequently at the center of my research. My primary research field is the Italian Renaissance, and I focus on the paintings and drawings of Federico Barocci, one of the leading Italian painters from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. In the spring of 2012 I served as Drawings Consultant for the exhibition on Barocci’s painting, Madonna of the Snow, at the Ducal Palace in Urbania, Italy. I was a Straus Intern in the drawing department at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, where I curated the 1999 exhibition "Timeless Beauty: Representing the Ideal in Neoclassical Drawing." I have published articles on the Florentine painter Fra Bartolommeo in Master Drawings, and on Barocci in The Burlington Magazine. I am also currently researching responses to the Italian Renaissance in French and American art in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, especially the figure drawing instruction of the Canadian-American artist George B. Bridgman. Some of my research on Bridgman and his students and colleagues at the Art Students League has appeared in the League’s online journal, LINEA.