Art and the cultured public - Documents on art and artists - Mid-century Venetian art criticism - Vasari - Art theory in the second half of the century - The Co

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Creighton E. Gilbert captures the spirit of the early Renaissance in this remarkable collection of primary texts by and about artists of the fifteenth century.

This book is an account of painting in Italy during the period of the High and the Late Renaissance, the period which included the most remarkable concentration

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