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With more than 800 contributors from hundreds of colleges, universities, museums, and research centers across the globe, Smarthistory is the most-visited art history resource in the world.
We created Smarthistory to provide students around the world with the highest-quality educational resources for art and cultural heritage—for free.
Paroma Chatterjee earned her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and is currently Associate Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research interests lie in Byzantine and medieval Mediterranean art.
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