Inner Surfaces: Essays on Art and Culture
Inner Surfaces is an independent site for essays on art and culture.
My background is in secondary and sixth-form education, and I hold an MA in Renaissance Studies and a PhD from Birkbeck College, London. My doctoral research, supervised by Francis Ames-Lewis, examined Giovanni Pontano’s writings on the social virtues in relation to the intellectual, political and commemorative culture of late fifteenth-century Naples.
These essays began with artists from central and southern Italy, especially those connected with Naples, but the scope has gradually widened. The focus remains art-historical, with close studies of individual works, artists, places and visual traditions across Italy and beyond. Particular attention is given to scholarship that has received limited circulation in English.
Inner Surfaces is intended for readers for whom art remains active, compelling and capable of exerting a lasting fascination.
I hope you enjoy exploring the essays on this site. Support for the project is warmly welcomed and helps keep this work freely available.
John Brooke
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