Three Studies: Masolino and Masaccio, Caravaggio and His Forerunners, Carlo Braccesco
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| Rating | : | 4.38 (886 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1878818511 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 279 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-30 |
| Language | : | Italian |
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Domenico Chirico said very good. excellent, very good, fine. i read it in italian already and it is one of the best review of Caravaggio paintings. best regards, domenico chirico
From Library Journal Students of art history deep in the throes of research on Masolino, Masaccio, Carlo Braccesco, or Caravaggio's prototypes may see this book as a great discovery. Readers with more mundane or general interest in art history will find themselves puzzled by its obscurity. Typically, in these three essays, Longhi continuously corrects the alleged errors of his contemporaries in extensive and personally charged footnotes, which today read like so much gossip. Though dedicated readers will enjoy his elegant and beautiful descriptions, this is recommended
Roberto Longhi (1890 - 1970) is regarded by Italians as their most important art critic, art historian, and prose stylist of this century, with unsurpassed powers of observation and description. This book is a new English version of the third edition (1963) of Longhi's seminal work on the Renaissance painter Piero della Francesca, with an introduction by Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Keith Christiansen. In the New York Review of Books, Francis Haskell wrote, Roberto Longhi is "the most brilliant Italian art historian of our