April Oettinger is Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. Her recent publications, which have appeared in scholarly journals including Artibus et Historiae, The Journal of Word and Image, and Source, treat topics including the art of 16th-century Venetian painter Lorenzo Lotto and the 1499 edition of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. She is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Her current book project is titled, Animating Nature. Lorenzo Lotto and the Sublime Turn in 16th-Century Venetian Landscape Art, 1500-1550.