italian art

Detailed biographies of six Italian artists and reproductions of their works.

We learn of his encounters with the vast population that surrounds Leonardo: great and lesser academics, collectors and curators, devious dealers and unctuous auctioneers, major scholars and authors and pseudohistorians and fantasists; but also how he has grappled with swelling legions of 'Leonardo loonies', walked on the eggshells of vested interests in academia and museums, and fended off fusillades of non-Leonardos, sometimes more than one a week.

Presents a two-in-one experimental novel about death, gender, morality, and art. In the first half of the book, a teen named Georgia struggles with the death of her mother, a feminist art critic obsessed with fifteenth-century Italian artist Francesco del Cossa. In the other half of the novel, the spirit of del Cossa observes twentieth-century Britain and remembers her own life disguised as a boy in order to practice her art.

Examines the works of three artists who spurred the Renaissance movement in early fifteenth-century Italy, including architect Filippo Brunelleschi, sculptor Donatello, and Masaccio, a painter.

Text and numerous color and and black-and-white reproductions present the work of the artist, describe his career achievements, and his personal life.

Examines the art and culture of Italy during the fifteenth century, including the lesser-known duchies and courts as well as the more famous cities.

Dramatizes the life of Michelangelo's career as a sculptor, painter, architect, and poet is traced from his promising boyhood apprenticeships to the painter Ghirlandaio and the sculptor Bertoldo through all the years of his genius.

Discusses the centers of culture and commerce in Italy, the role of women, and the lives of the era's most important people.

Presents sixty-two annotated plates of Michelangelo's sculptures, paintings, and architecture--commenting on the pieces' history, context, and current condition--along with biographical text.

Presents sixty-three annotated plates of Leonardo da Vinci's paintings and sketches--commenting on the pieces' history, context, and current condition--along with biographical text.