Product Description: This study, covering almost a thousand years of art history in Lucca, also provides a model for a wider investigation of the political iconography of the Italian city-states, of which Lucca is a particularly relevant example. Max Seidel, Professor of Art History at several European universities, and director of the Art Institute of Florence, is one of the most respected authorities of the arts of the Middle Ages...read more

Product Description: This compilation presents a complete history of the art of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in Italy. In a single volume edition, the author's landmark work covers everything found in the two volume set, including painting, sculpture, and architecture...read more

Product Description: This volume presents new discoveries and new interpretations of highly important paintings and frescos from the Gothic and Renaissance periods, featuring works from Duccio, Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Francesco di Giorgio, and Luca Signorelli...read more

Examines the life and background of Pieter Bruegel, as well as his art, viewing the many facets of Bruegel's artistic vision with full-color reproductions and black-and-white gravure