Art in Renaissance Italy. The Magazine Antiques | April 1, 1997| | COPYRIGHT 1997 Brant Publications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

The Italian Renaissance revisited

Giorgio Vasari, in his Lives of the Artists of 1550, divided the art of the Italian Renaissance into three progressively worthier periods, each driven by the creative genius of its artists. And being a Tuscan he tended to treat Venice, Rome, and Naples as suburbs of Florence. Art in Renaissance Italy, written by two Renaissance specialists, one at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, and the other at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, sets out to reintegrate the arts into the historical and social fabric of the ...

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