Roger J. Crum is associate professor of art history at the University of Dayton, where he held the Graul Chair in Arts and Languages. He has received fellowships from the Kress Foundation (at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence), the Newberry Library, and the Institute for Advanced Study. He is co-editor, with Claudia Lazzaro, of Donatello among the Blackshirts: History and Modernity in the Visual Culture of Fascist Italy and is working on a study of the Medici Palace and partisan politics in fifteenth-century Florence.