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The profile traces his origins in Moscow, exile to Berlin, studies in London, and postwar immigration to New York. It summarizes his academic career, major publications, influential controversies, teaching roles, and the growth of his print collections, culminating in institutional donations and later scholarly impact in art criticism and historiography.","The Library of Professor Leo Steinberg  \n4164 titles in ca. 4600 physical volumes  \nINTRODUCTORY MATERIAL  \nDICTIONARY OF ART HISTORIANS  \nA Biographical Dictionary of Historic Scholars, Museum Professionals and Academic Historians of Art  \nSteinberg, Leo, né Zalman Lev  \nDate born: July 9, 1920  \nPlace Born: Moscow, Russia  \nDate died: March 13, 2011  \nPlace died: New York, NY  \nMichelangelo- and modernist art historian; Benjamin Franklin professor of art at University of Pennsylvania, 1975- 1991. Steinberg was born in Moscow of German-Jewish parents (his mother was Anyuta Esselson [Steinberg], 1890- 1954) and his father, Isaac Nachman Steinberg (1888-1957), government figure and lawyer in revolutionary Russia. Lenin appointed Steinberg's father commissar of justice. His idealism,(he wanted to abolish the prison system, for example) forced the family into exile in Berlin, where the younger Steinberg grew up. After the rise of the Nazis in Germany, the family moved to London where Steinberg studied (studio) painting and sculpture at the Slade School in London from 1936 to 1940. After World War II he immigrated to New York working initially as a freelance writer and translator (including a holocaust account, Ashes and Fire, 1947) . He also taught drawing at the Parsons School of Design. He studied art history at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, under Richard Krautheimer and Wolfgang Lotz, receiving his Ph. D. , in 1960. His dissertation, written under Lotz, was on Borromini's San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane. In 1962 he an art editor for Life magazine married Dorothy Seiberling (later divorced) . Between 1962-1975 Steinberg taught art history and life drawing at Hunter College, the City University of New York. He and Milton Brown developed the curriculum for the City University's graduate program in art history, instituted in 1971. During this time he began buying prints, which developed into one of the finest Italian Renaissance and Mannerist graphics collections in private hands. His collection also included many modern masters, another a research interest of Steinberg’s. From 1969 to 1971, he was a board member of the College Art Association. Steinberg largely confined himself to articles (as opposed to books) for most of his early career. In 1972, he wrote two of the articles for which he is best known, neither of which was on a Renaissance topic. The first, \"Reflections on the State of Art Criticism,\"which attacked traditional art criticism (see below), and a (re)analysis of Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon, entitled\"The Philosophical Brothel.\" The latter article, which situated the viewer as a patron in a house of prostitution and intellectually as a participant of the pivot of Cubism, brought a storm of criticism (among groups as disparate as feminists and formalists) as well as widespread acceptance. In 1972, too, Steinberg also co-founded the art history department of the graduate center at CUNY. His collected essays, Other Criteria was published the same year. In 1975 he was named Benjamin Franklin Professor of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Also in 1975, Steinberg wrote his first monograph, Michelangelo's Last Paintings. In 1982, he delivered the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, titled, \"The Burden of Michelangelo’s Painting.\" The following year, Steinberg published another \"blockbuster\" re-evaluation of a traditional genre: the sexual representation of the infant Christ. A storm of controversy again ensued and the article (it required the entire issue of October magazine) appeared in book form the same year. In 1983 Steinberg was received a literature award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the first art historian to win this distinction. He won the College Art Association's Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Criticism in 1984 and was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 19","cbCaiv8aw4NPJ5j3","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiv8aw4NPJ5j3","pdf",15528372,8,1,316,"English","en",105,"# INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL\n## Dictionary of Art Historians\n## Biographical Profile of Leo Steinberg\n## Education and Early Career\n## Publications and Critical Influence\n## Awards, Teaching, and Later Legacy","[{\"question\":\"Who was Leo Steinberg in the field of art history?\",\"answer\":\"Leo Steinberg was a Michelangelo- and modernist art historian and a Benjamin Franklin Professor of art at the University of Pennsylvania (1975–1991).\"},{\"question\":\"Where did Leo Steinberg study and how did his early life shape his career?\",\"answer\":\"Born in Moscow to German-Jewish parents, he spent childhood in exile (Berlin and then London) and studied painting and sculpture at the Slade School, later earning a Ph.D. in art history at NYU.\"},{\"question\":\"What are some of Steinberg’s most noted works and why did they attract controversy?\",\"answer\":\"Works such as “The Philosophical Brothel” (on Picasso’s Demoiselles d’Avignon) and later re-evaluations of Michelangelo and infant Christ imagery generated major criticism and broad acceptance by reframing viewers’ roles and interpretations.\"}]","The Library of Professor Leo Steinberg - 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