Prof.
Avigdor
W.G.
Posèq
(1934-2016)
An expert in Renaissance and Baroque Art and in Modern Jewish Art. >>> Prof. Posèq was originally an artist, who turned to Art History while teaching a Materials and Techniques course at the Hebrew University. He has written many books, some dealing with the Baroque (Bernini Revisited: New Insights into his Work, Caravaggio and the Antique), others with formal and semiotic problems in art (Perspective [in Hebrew], Format in Painting, Left and Right in Painting and the Related Arts), as well as books and articles on Chaim Soutine, Jacques Lipchitz and Ygael Tumarkin.