This book recounts the exciting rediscovery of Giorgio Vasari's painting' Allegory of Patience' painted in 1551?52 for the Bishop of Arezzo Vasari's hometown. T

This book recounts the exciting rediscovery of Giorgio Vasari's painting' Allegory of Patience', painted in 1551-52 for the Bishop of Arezzo, Vasari's hometown.

A comprehensive re-assessment of Raphael's artistic achievement and the ways in which it transformed the idea of what art is.

Did the Florentine philosopher Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) influence the art of his time? Art historians have been fiercely debating this question for decades. Th