The arts of Renaissance Venice teem with sea monsters. Chief among these are mermaids and mermen, graceful hybrid beings human from the waist up, but with the lower body and tail of a fish, dolphin or
First published in German in 1938 and later translated into English, this classic of Italian Renaissance historiography centres on the relationship between Florentine art and the conditions under whic
A comprehensive new survey of the work of this most influential Florentine artist and teacherAndrea del Verrocchio (c. 1435-1488) was one of the most versatile and inventive artists of the Italian Ren
The great Venetian sculptors of the High Renaissance, led by Tullio Lombardo (c. 1455?1532), explored a poetic and nostalgic approach to classical antiquity in their work. Their expression shares much
This volume is one of several that examines the National Gallery of Art's distinguished collection of decorative arts. (The second volume will be published in 1996.) The group treated here is composed
The National Gallery's collection of nineteenth-century European sculpture is dominated by 37 works by Auguste Rodin and more than 30 portrait busts by Honore Daumier. Works by Antoine-Louis Barye, Je
