Product Description: In the words of cultural historian Jacob Burkhardt, fifteenth-century Italy was "the place where the notion of the individual was born." In keeping with that idea, early Renaissance Italy was a key participant in the first great age of portraiture in Europe...read more

Product Description: English description: Spinello di Luca Spinelli, known as Spinello Aretino, headed one of the most active artistic workshops in Tuscany at the turn of the fourteenth century. This monograph traces Spinello's career from his apprenticeship in the Aretino workshop of Andrea di Nerio to his own masterworks in Florence, Pisa, and Siena...read more

Product Description: This volume is a lavishly illustrated invitation to contemplate the intricacy of religious paintings charting the course of Tuscan painting after Giotto. Around 1400, Cennino Cennini in his Libro dell'Arte defined the art of painting as a product of imagination and craft, a text that gave rise to an exhibition focusing on the tradition of painting through the generations from Giotto, his pupil Taddeo Gaddi, the son of the latter, Agnolo, and finally Cennini himself...read more

Product Description: This sophisticated volume showcases selected examples of the development of Italian altarpieces and devotional paintings from Duccio to Perugino, highlighting the original functions of the images in public and individual use.