Balas, Edith

Edith Balas has been Professor of Art History at Carnegie Mellon University for over thirty years. Her main areas of interest are modern art (1890-1960), painting and sculpture, and the art of the Italian Renaissance. In addition to over two dozen articles in American and European journals, her publications include Brancusi and Romanian Folk Tradition (1987, 2006), Michelangelo's Medici Chapel: A New Interpretation (1995), Joseph Csaky: A Pioneer of Modern Sculpture (1998), The Holocaust in the Painting of Valentin Lustig (2001), The Mother Goddess in the Italian Renaissance (2002), The Early