User:John N. Lupia III

John N. Lupia was trained in theology and philosophy with the Franciscan Friars Commissariat of the Holy Land who sent him to study at Duns Scotus College, Southfield, Michigan. There he studied under Fr. Rufus "Roy" Effler, O.F.M., the preeminent logician, philosopher and scholar on Duns Scotus. He then studied biblical studies and archaeology at Seton Hall University's Divinity School, (B. A. 1976). His graduate studies in biblical scholarship were at the Immaculate Conception Seminary. He studied under Msgr. James Turro, one of the contributors to the Jerome Biblical Commentary. He went on to graduate studies in art history and archaeology at City College of the City University of New York, (M. A. 1982) and published his thesis "An analysis of Leonardo da Vinci's Portrait of Ginevra de' Benci", which demonstrated the portrait was rendered using anamorphic perspective. At City College he studied with Jacob Rothenbery the preeminent scholar on the Elgin Marbles, and with Irving Kaufman in the Museology degree program allowing him to work as an extern in several of the world class museums in New York City. He served as an extern in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick Museum, and the Jewish Museum. He went on for his Ph. D. in art history at Rutgers University, studying under James H. Stubblebine, the preeminent Italo-Byzantine scholar of dugento and trecento art and Duccio di Buoninsegna, and early Italo-Byzantine Crucifix paintings. He served as his graduate research assistant for several articles and his book Assisi and the Rise of the Vernacular (New York : Harper & Row, 1985). While at Rutgers he participated in the Rutgers-Princeton Student Exchange Program and studied with John Kinder Gowran Shearman, the preeminent Italian Renaissance scholar and worked with Kurt Weitzman, the preeminent Byzantine and iconography expert. Later, he was made a graduate fellow of Rutgers School of Communications, Information and Library Studies (MLS 1993). There he studied under Tefko Saracevic, the preeminent information scientist and Nicholas J. Belkin, the preeminent scholar on human-information-seeking-behavior. In 1994 he published a landmark article on Italian Renaissance artists and their use of anamorphic perspective in, "The Secret Revealed: How to Look at Italian Renaissance Painting,". Medieval and Renaissance Times, Vol. 1, no. 2 (Summer, 1994): 6–17. ISSN 1075-2110. He served as an intern at Princeton University's Special Collections in the Marquand Art Library. He taught art history and archaeology for over fifteen years at various universities including Seton Hall University and Kean University. He served as a leading contributor for Macmillan Publishers New Groves Dictionary of Art; 35 volumes, 1995. Mr. Lupia is listed in Catholic Biblical Associations Member Directory; Gale Publishers, The Directory of American Scholars; 5 volumes, 1998 edition; ABI's International Directory of Distinguished Leadership, 10th ed; and IBC's Directory. He has been a member of the Society of Biblical Literature; College Arts Association of America; the Catholic Biblical Association of America; the American Society of Papyrologists; the American Numismatic Association, the American Numismatic Society; the American Philatelic Society. In 2001, he founded Roman Catholic News and serves as its editor to the present. In October 2002, his discovery made international news being the first antiquities expert to demonstrate that the so-called James Ossuary was a fake. In 2009, he contributed suggestions to Q. David Bowers for his outstanding landmark book on Colonial Numismatics, Whitman Encyclopedia of Colonial and Early American Coins (Atlanta, Georgia : Whitman Publishing, 2009). In 2010 he published The Ancient Jewish Shroud At Turin (Regina Caeli Press, 2010). This book provides archaeological evidence that the Shroud of Turin is authentic and is not merely an arbitrary linen used to bury Jesus of Nazareth, but Jesus' personal garment. This garment is the ancient sacred garment all Jewish men were bound by mitzvah to wear now called in modern times a tallit. In 2011, he founded Numismatic Mall, a website devoted to numismatic research. For many years he has undertaken numismatic research discovering over 100 American coin auctions that were not known to contemporary American numismatic historians, and has created thousands of biographies of numismatic personalities in his Encyclopedic Dictionary of Numismatic Biographies, which he intends to publish,. He has published numerous articles in various journals on numismatics and philatelics. He has traveled throughout the United States and Europe and has lived in the Middle East studying the Holy Land archaeological sites in Lebanon and Egypt.