Beschrijving
Step into the studios and salons where Italian painting took shape and European taste was transformed. In this classic art history book, J. T. James offers a clear, reflective survey of the great schools of italian painting and the forces that shaped them. His eye is sharp, humane. Moving from early devotional imagery to the flowering of italian renaissance painting history, he traces how style, subject, and patronage evolved, and closes with thoughtful observations on the nineteenth-century \
