Leo Steinberg

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Leo Steinberg (born 1920) is an American art historian. He has won literary awards as well as awards for his criticism. He was professor of art history at Hunter College, and is a Benjamin Franklin and University Professor of the History of Art, Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania. Steinberg is known for his work in several areas of Art History, notably Renaissance art and Modernism.

The whole of the Summer 1983 issue of October was dedicated to Steinberg's essay The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and Modern Oblivion, later published as a book by Random House. In that essay, Steinberg examined a previously ignored pattern in Renaissance art: the prominent display of the genitals of the infant Christ, and the attention drawn again to that area in images of Christ near the end of his life.

In Tom Wolfe's 1975 book, The Painted Word, Steinberg was labelled one of the "kings of Cultureburg" for the enormous degree of influence that his criticism, along with that of other "kings" Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg, exerted over the world of art.

In 1995-1996 Steinberg was a professor at Harvard University.

[edit] Works

• Other Criteria, 1972
• Pontormo's Capponi Chapel." Art Bulletin 56, no. 3 (1974): 385-99.
• The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion, 1983
• Leonardo's Incessant Last Supper, 2001