Andrew Casper is an art historian at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He specializes in Renaissance and Baroque art of southern Europe, with a particular focus on religious imagery, icons, and relics of the late 1500s and 1600s. He received his BA from the University of Michigan and his MA and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Artistic exchanges between Venice and Crete at that time contributed to the formation of an artistic environment unique in the Italian renaissance.