User talk:John N. Lupia III

John N. Lupia was trained in 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. 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. 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). Later, he was made a graduate fellow of Rutgers School of Information and Library Studies (MLS 1993). 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 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 Society; the American Philatelic Society. In 2001, he founded Roman Catholic News and serves as its editor to the present. 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). In 2011, he founded Numismatic Mall, a website devoted to numismatic research. In October 2013 he published the first of a two volume revised edition of Emmanuel Attinelli's, Numisgraphics titled, American Numismatic Auctions to 1875 ISBN: 978-0-9826739-1-1. The first volume alone provides more than 90 never before seen or known, to American historians of the past 140 years, coin, medal and coin book auctions. The second volume provides even more newly discovered auction sales that will change how numismatic historians understand American numismatic history. He has published numerous articles in various journals on numismatics and philatelics. He has traveled throughout Europe and has lived in the Middle East studying the Holy Land archaeological sites in Lebanon and Egypt.

February 2020
Hello, I'm Tgeorgescu. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Shroud of Turin, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Tgeorgescu (talk) 12:11, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

Addition: the two sides of the debate are not equal and we don't do WP:GEVAL. See WP:FRINGE and WP:RNPOV. Tgeorgescu (talk) 12:16, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

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