'Art', declared Vasari in Lives of the Artists, has been reborn and reached perfection in our time'. Indeed the roster of great names in painting of the Cinquec

An introduction to 15th century Italian painting and the social history behind it, arguing that the two are interlinked and that the conditions of the time help

"Focuses primarliy on the social and historical context in which art was made and used"--Bibliographic essay (p. 326).

"Hand-painted illumination enlivened the burgeoning culture of the book in the Italian Renaissance, spanning the momentous shift from manuscript production to p

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