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Product Description: Giorgio Vasari's The Lives of the Artists (1550, 1568) has been a key subject of study for students of the Italian Renaissance over the hundreds of years since its publication. It has maintained a powerful grip on the historical imagination and continues to influence the way scholars treat the Renaissance, its artists, and the entire intellectual enterprise of Western art...read more

Product Description: This volume brings together Ladis' writings produced during the last twenty years. The principal theme is the relationship between form and meaning but papers also discuss patronage, workshops and some of the main Florentine and Sienese artists, especially Giotto, Taddeo Gaddi, Ambrogio Lorenzetti and Masaccio...read more

A Discerning Eye is an anthology of some of the finest and most lasting essays by a great critic-historian of Early Italian painting, Richard Offner. Its contents span the Florentine fourteenth century and thus compose a kind of portrait album of some of its most notable painters between the Gothic and Renaissance eras, from the Magdalen Master in the thirteenth century to Masaccio in the early fifteenth. Each essay contains insights that are as incisive, fresh, and evocative today as when they were first written. The essays are illustrated using Offner’s original photographs supplemented by new or additional photographs when dictated by the material or when the reader might be better helped to see the relationship between Offner’s analytical prose and a given image.This book reintroduces Offner and places him in the wider context of art-historical writing to reassess his work and underscore what his writings have to offer art historians working today. Three interpretive essays approach Offner from distinct but complementary perspectives: historiographical, philosophical, and biographical. Reassessments of such figures as Erwin Panofsky and Millard Meiss aid the ongoing debate about what art history is and how it ought to be practiced. The reader is asked to reconsider not merely the value but also the philosophical foundation of connoisseurship as a method of investigation and its compatibility with other methods.

Product Description: The 14th century Florentine painter Giotto di Bondone, is universally recognised as one of the greatest figures in the European artistic tradition, yet his life and career has been surrounded by controversy. This four-volume set provides a comprehensive collection of modern scholarly literature on the artist and his work...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The 14th century Florentine painter Giotto di Bondone, is universally recognised as one of the greatest figures in the European artistic tradition, yet his life and career has been surrounded by controversy. This four-volume set provides a comprehensive collection of modern scholarly literature on the artist and his work...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The 14th century Florentine painter Giotto di Bondone, is universally recognised as one of the greatest figures in the European artistic tradition, yet his life and career has been surrounded by controversy. This four-volume set provides a comprehensive collection of modern scholarly literature on the artist and his work...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The 14th century Florentine painter Giotto di Bondone, is universally recognised as one of the greatest figures in the European artistic tradition, yet his life and career has been surrounded by controversy. This four-volume set provides a comprehensive collection of modern scholarly literature on the artist and his work...read more

Product Description: In this collection of nine essays some of the preeminent art historians in the United States consider the relationship between art and craft, between the creative idea and its realization, in Renaissance and Baroque Italy. The essays, all previously unpublished, are devoted to the pictorial arts and are accompanied by nearly 150 illustrations...read more

Product Description: The magnificent frescoes in chapels and town halls across Italy together represent one of the greatest achievements of Renaissance art. Commissioned both by private patrons and by the Church, artists responded with images of matchless beauty...read more