as well as in Schiele scholarship: the discovery, half a century after Schiele's incarceration in a provincial Austrian jail, of the actual cell in which he had been imprisoned. Throughout this book, Comini invites readers to join her in the same zestful pursuit of cultural history that has repeatedly earned her the honor of being voted "outstanding professor, " first by her students at Columbia University in the 1960s and 1970s, then later at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Focusing on three major areas--nineteenth-and twentieth-century art ranging from Spain to Finland, revisionist work in the history of women artists past and present, and musical iconography--Comini's research and quests take the reader around the world and back. From the islands of Corfu, Corsica, and Madeira to Martinique, Rugen, and Tahiti, and from the cities of Lisbon, Istanbul, Barcelona, Rome, and Athens to Paris, Copenhagen, Oslo, Helsinki, and St. Petersburg, Comini pursues such diverse and distinctive personalities as Rosa Bonheur, Edvard Munch, Gustav Klimt, Vaslav Nijinsky, Egon Schiele, Isadora Duncan, Schopenhauer, and Kathe Kollwi