Rather than recounting Catherine Puglisi’s accomplishments as we did in the Introduction to the first volume of her Festschrift, here we identify the essays that testify to her breadth of scholarship and teaching and to her travels to European and Latin American cities. The opening essay on the Greco-Roman gods depicted in viceregal Peru recalls her visit to Tunja, and her career-long focus on Bolognese painting echoes in a triad of papers examining first, the Emilian city’s Early Modern women artists; second, a major altarpiece by Ludovico Carracci; and third, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century works of art for local charitable institutions. Catherine’s deep commitment to Caravaggio and Caravaggio studies is manifest in four essays: his Judith seen alongside paintings by others of the same subject vis-à-vis contemporary dramatic texts; a report on his David with the Head of Goliath in the Museo del Prado, Madrid; an inquiry into the painter’s sexuality; and finally, an analysis of his artistic formation (and those of Salvator Rosa and Jusepe de Ribera) resulting from boyhood trauma.

Catherine’s continuing visits to Venice, Spain, London and Paris resonate in five studies. An investigation of a ceiling by Antonio Vassilacchi (called l’Aliense) for the Banqueting Hall in the Ducal Palace, Venice, is followed by an in-depth look at the complexities of Juan de Valdés’s Pietà in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Returning to Venice, we read how drawings and prints played a fundamental role in the education and development of the young Giambattista Tiepolo, after which Jacques-Louis David’s art is explored through the eyes of contemporary British visitors to Paris. To conclude, a panoramic appraisal examines how nineteenth-century view painters in Venice portrayed the Zattere, the two-kilometer-long promenade bordering the Giudecca Canal.

The contributors to the Festschrift acknowledge once more Józef Grabski’s generous gift to Catherine and to all involved in this project, and we happily recognize too the enormous work Joanna Wolańska and her staff in Cracow have undertaken to realize both volumes.

Lisandra Estevez and Patricia Zalamea