(February 23, 2009) Monsignor Timothy Verdon, Professor of Art History, suggests the historiographic and ecclesiological coefficients of what thus appears to be a calculated juxtaposition, situating the early-modern conceptual program of the frescoes.

Paul Goldberger is the Dean of Parsons The New School for Design and architecture critic for "The New Yorker." He is one of the nation's most eminent critics and writers on architecture.