Leo Steinberg

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Leo Steinberg was a prominent 20th-century art historian and critic known for his influential writings on Renaissance and modern art, including groundbreaking studies of Michelangelo and Picasso.

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instanceOf art critic
art historian
historian of Renaissance art
historian of modern art
writer
awardReceived College Art Association’s Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art
Frank Jewett Mather Award
citizenship United States of America
countryOfBirth Russia
dateOfBirth 1920-07-09
dateOfDeath 2011-03-13
degree PhD in art history
educatedAt Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Slade School of Fine Art
employer Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Hunter College
University of Pennsylvania
era 20th century
early 21st century
familyName Steinberg
fieldOfWork Renaissance art
art criticism
art history
modern art
fullName Leo Steinberg
givenName Leo
influenced art historical interpretation of Renaissance iconography
scholarship on Leonardo da Vinci
scholarship on Michelangelo
scholarship on Pablo Picasso
scholarship on Robert Rauschenberg
knownFor concept of the "flatbed picture plane" in modern art
groundbreaking studies of Renaissance art
groundbreaking studies of modern art
interpretation of Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper
interpretation of Michelangelo’s late works
interpretive essays on Pablo Picasso
interpretive essays on Robert Rauschenberg
language English
German
Russian
migration emigrated from Germany to the United Kingdom
emigrated from Russia to Germany as a child
emigrated from the United Kingdom to the United States
notableWork Encounters with Rauschenberg
Leonardo’s Incessant Last Supper
linked to: The Last Supper

Michelangelo’s Last Paintings
Other Criteria: Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art
The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion
occupation professor
placeOfBirth Moscow
placeOfDeath New York City
positionHeld Benjamin Franklin Professor of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania

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