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From:
The Art Bulletin
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June 1, 2000| Author:
WILLIAMS, ROBERT
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PATRICIA EMISON
New York: Garland Publishing Company, 1997. 209 pp., 40 b/w ills. $75
Patricia Emison's Low and High Style in Italian Renaissance Art is an intriguing, rather offbeat attempt to address a set of images that in some way seem to defy the qualities of technical refinement, ideality, and magnificence usually associated with the art of Renaissance Italy. Aligning herself in a general way with revisionist trends in recent scholarship, she argues for...