John Garton, assistant professor of Art History in the Visual and Performing Arts Department, has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to study Leonardo da Vinci’s figural grotesques and their relationship to Renaissance conceptions of creativity.  Professor Garton will join a group of international scholars at the Kunsthistorisches Institut – Max-Planck-Institut in Florence, Italy in June and July as part of the NEH-sponsored summer institute, “Leonardo da Vinci: Between Art and Science.”