William Wallace is the Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History at Washington University. He has published “Michelangelo: The Complete Sculpture, Painting, Architecture”, which was awarded the 1999 Umhoefer Prize for Achievement in the Humanities. Professor Wallace has received numerous awards and fellowships, including stays at the Villa I Tatti (Harvard University’s Center for Renaissance Studies in Florence) and the American Academy in Rome. In 1990 Professor Wallace was invited to the Vatican to confer about the conservation of Michelangelo’s frescos in the Sistine Chapel. He also appeared in a BBC film, “The Private Life of a Masterpiece: Michelangelo’s David.”