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Bernadine Barnes teaches the history of art in the Early Modern period, that is, the Renaissance and Baroque periods. She is particularly interested in how artists direct their works toward specific types of viewers or buyers, and how critics articulate the expectations of various audiences. Her research has been focused on the art of Michelangelo and responses to it in prints and criticism. Her publications include Michelangelo’s Last Judgment: The Renaissance Response and Michelangelo in Print. Other interests include images of women in the Renaissance (she was co-curator of an exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington called EVA/AVE: Images of Women in Renaissance and Baroque Art); artists as entrepreneurs, and cultural encounters in the Early Modern Mediterranean.