Product Description: Italy, 1456. The Renaissance is in glorious bloom. A Carmelite monk, the great artist Fra Filippo Lippi acts as chaplain to the nuns of the Convent Santa Margherita. It is here that he encounters the greatest temptation of his life, beautiful Lucrezia Buti, who has been driven to holy orders more by poverty than piety...read more

Product Description: Una extraordinaria historia de amor en el Renacimiento italiano. La tumultuosa vida de Filippo Lippi, famoso monje y pintor del Quattrocento, conocido en la epoca tanto por la maestria en su profesion como por su atractivo para las mujeres...read more

Product Description: From pilgrimages to popular festivals, from modern spectacles to advertising, from the work of avant-garde painters to the novels of Emil Zola, "Consuming the Past" explores the complexity of the fin-de-siecle French fascination with the Middle Ages...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The 19th century saw the emergence of numerous artistic brotherhoods - groups of artists bound together in communal production, sharing spiritual and aesthetic aims. This collection of essays explores the issue of artistic brotherhoods...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)