Product Description: First published in 2000, Confraternities and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Italy: Ritual, Spectacle, Image was the first book to consider the role of Italian confraternities in the patronage of art. Eleven interdisciplinary essays analyze confraternal painting, sculpture, architecture, and dramatic spectacles by documenting the unique historical and ritual contexts in which they were experienced...read more

Product Description: This Companion explores the visual, intellectual, and religious culture of Renaissance Florence in the age of Masaccio, 1401-1428. Written by a team of internationally renowned scholars and conservators, the essays in this volume investigate the artistic, civic, and sacred contexts of Masaccio's works and the sites in which they were seen...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this beautiful book Diane Cole Ahl provides a definitive account of the life and work of Renaissance artist Benozzo Gozzoli. Focusing on the social and cultural context of Gozzoli`s time, Ahl assesses his artistic output, including many works unknown until now...read more