Obituary: Frances Huemer (1921-2014)
Frances Huemer, professor emerita at the University
of North Carolina, died June 4, 2014. An expert on Peter
Paul Rubens, she focused her research on his close association
with a circle of Italian intellectuals, including Galileo. She published
two books on Rubens: a volume on his portraits painted
at foreign courts in the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard
series (1977) and Rubens and the Roman Circle: Studies of the First
Decade (1996). She also published on the architectural theories
of Michelangelo and Borromini.