George L. Hersey

George L. Hersey (August 30, 1927 – October 23, 2007) was an American art historian at Yale University.[1] He was an expert on Italian Renaissance art and architecture, and art and architecture of the 19th century in the United States. His work posed questions about the connection of biology and sexuality to art and architecture.[2]

Works

Pythagorean Palaces: Architecture and Magic in the Italian Renaissance (1976)
The Lost Meaning of Classical Architecture: Speculations on Ornament from Vitruvius to Venturi (1988)
High Renaissance Art in St. Peters and the Vatican (1993)
The Evolution of Allure: Sexual Selection from the Medici Venus to the Incredible Hulk (1996)
The Monumental Impulse: Architecture's Biological Roots (1999)
Architecture and Geometry in the Age of the Baroque (2002)
Falling in Love with Statues: Artificial Humans from Pygmalion to the Present (2009)

"George Hersey". University of Chicago Press. Retrieved April 15, 2020.
"Hersey, George Leonard 1927-". Contemporary Authors New Revision Series. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale.

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