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Christopher Pastore
- Position
- Director of the Penn Master of Liberal Arts program
- Biographical Info
Christopher Pastore is Director of the Penn Master of Liberal Arts program, Associate Director of LPS Humanities and Social Sciences Programs, and Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published essays on Renaissance garden history and theory and early modern visual culture. He received his Ph.D. from Penn in 2003 and is currently revising a manuscript on Sixteenth Century Italian villa culture: Cultivating Antiquity. His other current projects include The Art of War, a re-characterization of Michelangelo’s Battle of Cascina as republican propaganda; Mr. America: a study of early modern personification; and Dr. Daddy: Why America Isn’t Ready for Stay at Home Dads.
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