Claire Farago received her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1988. She is a widely published art historian specializing in Renaissance art and theory. . She has published the following books: Leonardo da Vinci's Peragone, a critical interpretation with a new edition of the text (Leiden-Sydney: EJ Brill, 1992); editor of and contributor to Reframing the Renaissance: Visual Culture in Europe and Latin American 1450-1650 (New Haven-London: Yale UP, 1995); Leonardo da Vinci:Codex Leicester/A Masterpiece of Science (New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1996); and Leonardo da Vinci: The Exchange between Theory and Practice in his Work (contract pending, Cambridge U. P, forthcoming, 1998). She has been developing new work in the area of colonial studies, viewed in a transnational/transatlantic persepctive and is currently working as principal author on a study of devotional art, entitled Between Worlds: Identity and Cultural Memory in New Mexican Santos, which is a collaborative project bringing together art historians, anthropologists, archeologists, and genealogists (Boulder: Colorado Unviersity Associated Press, forthcoming c. 1998) and a study of the history of the category visual art. She is currently a research fellow at the Center for the Humanities, Oregon State Unviersity, Corvallis. In spring 1998 she will be Visiting Arts Council Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Art History, UCLA.