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Rebekah Smick,   PhD (University of Toronto), MA (Columbia University), BA (Brandeis University) is associate professor of philosophy of the arts and culture. Her research and teaching focus on the critical literature of the arts in the early modern and modern periods and the relation between art and religion. She is co-editor of the book Antiquity and Its Interpreters (Cambridge UP, 2000). Her published articles and chapters in books include “Grazia in the Lives of Giorgio Vasari: Rhetorical Flourish or the Power of God?” “Touch in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: The Sensual Ethics of Architecture,” “Vivid Thinking: Word and Image in Descriptive Techniques of the Renaissance,” “Evoking Michelangelo’s Vatican Pietà: Transformations in the Topos of Living Stone” and “Michelangelo e il concetto di pietà nel tema rinascimentale dell'amore e della morte.” She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Michelangelo=s Vatican Pietà as Image in the Theology and Aesthetics of Compassion. Before joining the ICS faculty in July 2008, she taught at the University of Toronto, the University of Waterloo and Queen’s University.

Telephone: 416-979-2331 ext. 232
http://www.icscanada.edu/faculty/rsmick/

View my syllabus for: (in reverse chronological order)

Grace as an Aesthetic Concept
Grace as an Aesthetic Concept
Theologies of Art: Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox
Who Put the Capital A in Art? Aesthetics, Art, and Virtue