A book on the developments in Italian painting from its origins in the early Middle Ages to the 20th century, responding to the need for accessible information delivered in entertaining texts, lavish illustrations and pertinent critical updates.
[Italian painting] A concise, absorbing and up-to-date overview of developments in Italian painting from its origins in the early Middle Ages – in spite of fragmentary documentation – to the 20th century, using divisions by century as a convenient pretext of order. Though remaining within the limits of a survey, this history also supplies immediate, useful information. The lavish iconographic materials, critical updating, entertaining writing and fine graphics make this book a precious anthology on the history of Italian painting, focusing on its movements and protagonists, in which national identity intertwines with the stimuli of local schools.