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Dr. Heather Graham

About Dr. Heather Graham

Heather Graham is Associate Professor of Art History at California State University, Long Beach. Her research and publications explore Italian Renaissance art as it intersects with the history of the body and of the emotions, early modern medicine, mourning behaviors and death, gender and sexual culture, and religion.

Find out more about why patrons commissioned artworks during the renaissance.

Why commission artwork during the renaissance?

by Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank and Dr. Heather Graham

Donatello, David - detail — His nudity references classical antiquity, but David embodies the ideals and concerns of 15th-century Florence.

A-level: Donatello, David

by Dr. Steven Zucker, Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Heather Graham