NOTES AND COMMENTS

Father Bireley has also appointed Peter C. Kent of the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, to the Committee on the John Gilmary Shea Prize for a three-year term.The committee for 2008, therefore, is composed of Professor Kent for modern European history; David D. Burr of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, for medieval history; and Thomas C. Reeves of the University of Wisconsin, Parkside, the chairman, for American history. The exhibition focuses on the city (maps), the popes (medallions and portraits), antiquity (Trajan's column, Nero's Golden House), society (nobility, pilgrims), and the revival of art (with religious objects such as reliquaries, processional crosses, and ceramic tiles; paintings by Andrea Mantegna, Masaccio, Donatello, Fra Angelico, and Antoniazzo Romano; and sculpture by Paolo Romano).