From: The Art Bulletin | Date: June 1, 2000| Author: WILLIAMS, ROBERT | Copyright information

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...