Biography

Estelle Lingo is Associate Professor of Early Modern European Art at the University of Washington in Seattle and a specialist in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century sculpture. Her book François Duquesnoy and the Greek Ideal (2007) reconstructs the contribution of Duquesnoy’s Roman circle to the coalescence of the Greek ideal within European culture. She has published and lectured widely on the theory, criticism, practice, and materiality of sculpture, with a particular emphasis on the historical interpretation of style. Her research has been supported by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Villa I Tatti, and the Kress Foundation.

Project Summary

Prof. Lingo will be completing a book, Mochi’s Edge and Bernini’s Baroque, which takes the art of the Tuscan sculptor Francesco Mochi (1580-1654) as the entry point for an inquiry into the historical and cultural forces reshaping the medium of sculpture between 1550 and 1650.