Alexander Nagel

Alexander Nagel received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. His first book, Michelangelo and the Reform of Art, was awarded the Renaissance Society of America’s Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Prize for “the best book in Renaissance studies.” He has published three other books and many articles on various aspects of art from the Middle Ages to the present, and is also an active critic of contemporary art. Alexander Nagel is a Professor at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts.