This book is a new English version of the third edition (1963) of Longhi's seminal work on the Renaissance painter Piero della Francesca, with an introduction by Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Keith Christiansen. A major work by the most important Italian art historian of this century.[...]
Finally in paperback, this is a major work by the most important Italian art historian of the twentieth century. Roberto Longhi (1890-1970) is regarded by Italians as their most important art critic, art historian, and prose stylist of the last century, with unsurpassed powers of observation and des[...]