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name: Mitchell B. Merback
about: Mitchell B. Merback is professor of the history of art at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of The Thief, the Cross and the Wheel: Pain and the Spectacle of Punishment in Medieval and Renaissance Europe (1999); Pilgrimage and Pogrom: Violence, Memory, and Visual Culture at the Host-Miracle Shrines of Germany and Austria (2013); and Perfection's Therapy: An Essay on Albrecht Dürer's Melencolia I (2017). Recently awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship; he is investigating the role of tragic recognition as a motif and metatheme in Christian art before 1600. Mitchell B. Merback is professor of the history of art at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of The Thief, the Cross and the Wheel: Pain and the Spectacle of Punishment in Medieval and Renaissance Europe (1999); Pilgrimage and Pogrom: Violence, Memory, and Visual Culture at the Host-Miracle Shrines of Germany and Austria (2013); and Perfection's Therapy: An Essay on Albrecht Dürer's Melencolia I (2017). Recently awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship; he is investigating the role of tragic recognition as a motif and metatheme in Christian art before 1600. ...more