On Cristoforo Sorte's Osservationi nella pittura: Water, Fire, and Landscape in Early Modern Venice

James Pilgrim is a historian of early modern art and fellow of the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. His current book project situates the rustic paintings of the sixteenth-century Italian artist, engineer, and surveyor Jacopo Bassano within a context of aggressive agricultural expansion on the Venetian mainland.