Product Description: With a freshness and breadth of approach that sets the art in its context, this book explores why works were created and who commissioned the palaces, cathedrals, paintings, and sculptures. It covers Rome and Florence, Venice and the Veneto, Assisi, Siena, Milan, Pavia, Genoa, Padua, Mantua, Verona, Ferrara, Urbino, and Naples...read more

Product Description: A collection of fifteen essays that offers different perspectives on a wide range of subjects in Italian art history, architecture, history, and urban studies. It includes topics that range from eleventh-century urbanism in Florence and northern influences on Lombard painting to the rewriting of history in the nascent Italian state...read more

Product Description: In 1452, Florentine sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti unveiled a masterpiece that had been a quarter-century in the making: ten bronze panels depicting intricate scenes from the Old Testament. The monumental gilded bronze doors (each more than 15 feet tall) were designed for the Baptistery in the Piazza del Duomo in Florence...read more

Product Description: La obra de Paoletti y Radke ofrece una completa visión del arte en Italia desde mediados del siglo XIII hasta finales del XVI. Sin olvidar sus cualidades formales, las obras se presentan como el fruto de un rico entramado de relaciones sociales, económicas y culturales, en el que comitentes y mecenas, adquieren articular r...read more

Product Description: Looks at Italian Renaissance art and society and documents the people and places of this age.

Product Description: Viterbo: Profile of a Thirteenth Century Papal Palace examines the form, function, style, and historical significance of one of the most remarkable structures created in Italy during the thirteenth century. Providing an in-depth analysis of the palace's place in architectural history, Gary Radke also analyzes the social history of the building, demonstrating how Viterbo's civic leaders were able to attract the popes to their city and how local builders accomodated papal taste, needs, and sensibilities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)