Contents
Editorial: Old and new angels--visible/invisible - Francesco Pellizzi
Masterful hands: Morelli and the Maya on the Hieroglyphic Stairway, Copan, Honduras - Stephen Houston, Barbara Fash, and David Stuart
Encounters with dragons: The stones of Chavín - Mary Weismantel
“Why give birth to enemies?”: The warrior aspects of the Aztec goddess Tlazolteotl-Ixcuina - Guilhem Olivier
The materiality of color in the body ornamentation of Aztec gods - Elodie Dupey Garcia
Crucifixion piety in New Mexico: On the origins and art of St. Librada - Cristina Cruz Gonzalez
A new ordering of Adena tablets based on a deeper reading of the McKensie Tablet - Duncan Caldwell
A terrifying mimesis: Problems of portraiture and representation in African sculpture (Congo-Kinshasa) - Z.S. Strother
Franchising minkisi in Loango: Questions of form and function - Wyatt Macgaffey
Alluring obscurity: Dancing nocturnal white masks in southwestern Burkina Faso - Lisa Homann
Pausanias and the figural decoration of Greek sacred architecture - Clemente Marconi
The aesthetics of landscape and icon at Sinai - Bissera V. Pentcheva
The gifts of the Gorgon: A close look at a Byzantine inkpot - Paroma Chatterjee
Vain labor(?): Things, strings, and the human condition in the art of Giovanni Baleison - Achim Timmermann
Seeing through stone: Materiality and place in a medieval Scottish pendant reliquary - Karen Overbey
The Crucifixions of Velázquez and Zurbarán - Juan Jose Lahuerta
The space of knowledge: Artisanal epistemology and Bernard Palissy - Noam Andrews
Heritage and humility in the Republic of Tools: Understanding the world of thought of early modern craftsmen - Katrin Seyler
The pulpit trap: Possession and personhood in colonial Goa - Ines G. Zupanov
Antimatter: On the surfaces of Fred Sandback’s early sculpture - Edward A. Vazquez
Visual difficulty as a cultural system - Bret Rothstein
A constellation of words: Causa, res, pragma, Sache - Remo Bodei
An artistic humanity: New positions on art and freedom in the context of Iberian expansion, 1500–1600 - Alessandra Russo
The potent image - Eric Michaud
“Cross my heart, hope to die, stick a needle in my eye”: Friendship, survival, and the pathos of portraiture - Maria H. Loh
An “applied physiology”: Italian modernism, Nietzschean philosophy, and the sexual economy of style - Ara H. Merjian
The last superstition - Roberto Calasso