"The preface to the second Italian edition was translated by Marguerite Shore"--T.p. verso.

The artist who influenced the whole of the Italian Renaissance, of whom Vasari wrote "GIOTTO restored the link between art and nature."

From the glories of the High Renaissance in Italy to the emotional visions of the Romantics, and from the groundbreaking techniques of the Impressionists to the

This book is a revisionist account of central Italian painting in the period 1260 - 1370.