Book of Donmon Teith

Accounts by early viewers -- Vasari's lives and other early art histories -- Patrons, commissions, and contracts -- Subject matter and Renaissance art theory --

"Many famous artworks of the Italian Renaissance were made to celebrate love, marriage, and family. They were the pinnacles of a tradition, dating from early in

This is the first book which gives a general overview of women as subject-matter in Italian Renaissance painting. It presents a view of the interaction between

This book presents a new perspective on the Italian Renaissance court by examining the circulation, collection and exchange of art objects.

Giles Knox examines how El Greco, Velázquez, and Rembrandt, though a disparate group of artists, were connected by a new self-consciousness with respect to art