Studies in the Art of the Renaissance IV
To throw new light on old masters must always be one of the principal aims of art historical research. In this, the fourth volume of his 'Studies in the Art of the Renaissance', and the eighth of his collected essays published by Phaidon Press, the author has brought new evidence from a fresh reading of texts and documents to bear on the interpretation of the work and personality of some of the leading artists of the Italian Renaissance - Gitto, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Giulio Romano and Michelangelo. Five of the nine essays here assembled have not previously been published in English, and the last, offering a new hypothesis concerning one of Michelangelo's last and most enigmatic compositions, is here printed for the first time.
Includes colour and black-and-white illustrations.
