Published in two volumes,
History of Italian Art
provides a major history of Italian Art from antiquity to the present day. A distinguished group of cultural historians provide a comprehensive account of Italian art in the wider sense, examining not only painting and sculpture, but also photography and iconography, restorations and fakes, landscapes and writing.List of Illustration.
Publisher's Note.
Preface by Peter Burke.
1. The Italian Artist and his Roles: Peter Burke.
2. Centre and Periphery: Enrico Castelnuovo and Carlo Ginzburg.
3. Italian Art and the Art of Antiquity: Nicole Dacos.
4. The Dispersal and Conservation of Art-historical Property: Francis Haskell.
5. The Public Reception of Art: Anna Maria Mura.
Index.
These well-chosen essays provide a comprehensive overview of Italian art.
The Art Book Review Very useful essays ... and all of them could be readily set for undergraduate and graduate reading. The Oxford Art Journal
Peter Burke is Professor Emeritus of Cultural History of Cambridge University.Published in two volumes, this major work provides a history of Italian art from antiquity to the present day.
A distinguished group of cultural historians provides a comprehensive account of Italian art in the wider sense: as well as painting and sculpture, they examine photography and iconography, restorations and fakes, landscapes and writing. They focus not only on individual artists and epochs, but on the conditions under which Italian art was and is created: its principles, intentions and effects.
History of Italian Art represents a radical break with the compendium of facts and works found in conventional books on art history. It explorlS@
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