About the Author

Allison Lee Palmer is an associate professor of art history in the School of Art at the University of Oklahoma. She received her PhD from Rutgers University in New Jersey with a dissertation titled “The Church of Gesù e Maria on the Via del Corso: Urban Planning in Baroque Rome.” Her undergraduate degree in art history is from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts.

Dr. Palmer currently teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in art from the Renaissance through the 18th century, as well as several interdisciplinary humanities courses for the College of Liberal Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Her teaching awards include the School of Art Excellence in Teaching Award (2008), the College of Fine Arts Peer Recognition Award (2004), the College of Liberal Studies Superior Teaching Award (2002), and the Rufus G. Hall Faculty Award from the College of Liberal Studies (2001).

Dr. Palmer’s publications focus on Italian Renaissance and Baroque art and include the following: “The Image of the Risen Christ and the Art of the Roman Baroque Tabernacle,” Proceedings of the International Conference “Constructions of Death, Mourning and Memory,” October 2006; “The Maternal Madonna in Quattrocento Florence: Social Ideals in the Family of the Patriarch,” Source—Notes in the History of Art 21, no. 3 (Spring 2002): 7–14; “The Walters’ Madonna and Child Plaquette and Private Devotional Art in Early Renaissance Italy,” Walters Art Journal 59, June 2001, 73–84; “Carlo Maratti’s Triumph of Clemency in the Altieri Palace in Rome: Papal Iconography in a Domestic Audience Hall,” Source—Notes in the History of Art 17, no. 4 (Summer 1998): 18–25; “Bonino da Campione’s Monument of Bernabò Visconti and Equestrian Sculpture in the Late Middle Ages,” Arte Lombarda 121, no. 3 (1997): 57–66; “The First Building Campaign of the

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Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, England, c. 3100–1500 BC (Photo: Nancy Lee Palmer)

Pyramids at Giza, outside Cairo, Egypt, c. 2500 BC (Photo: Dawn St. Clare)

Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, 400s BC (Photo: Dawn St. Clare)

Colosseum, Rome, AD 72–80 (Photo: Dawn St. Clare)

Anasazi “Great House” foundations, New Mexico, 900s–1400s (Photo: Allison Lee Palmer)

Uxmal Ceremonial Center, Mexico, 800s–1200s (Photo: Dawn St. Clare)

Machu Picchu, Peru, 1450s (Photo: Allison Lee Palmer)

Forbidden City, Beijing, 1368–1644 (Photo: Dawn St. Clare)

Saint Peter’s Church, Rome, begun 1505 (Photo: Dawn St. Clare)

Andrea Palladio, Villa Rotonda, Vicenza, Italy, 1560s (Photo: Dawn St. Clare)

Louis Le Vau, Versailles Palace, Versailles, 1660s (Photo: Nancy Lee Palmer)

Charles Garnier, Opéra, Paris, 1860s (Photo: Dawn St. Clare)

Antoní Gaudi, Parc Güell, Barcelona, 1900s–1910s (Photo: Allison Lee Palmer)

Frank Lloyd Wright, Robie House, Chicago, 1909 (Photo: Allison Lee Palmer)

Gerrit Rietveld, Schroeder House, Utrecht, 1924 (Photo: Allison Lee Palmer)

Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, Poissy-sur-Seine, 1929 (Photo: Dawn St. Clare)