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This first complete English translation, including over 250 full-color images, is a longitudinal cultural history of how art came to be institutionalized in the history of western representational practices.
About the author
Claire Farago (Ph.D., 1988) is Professor of Renaissance Art, Theory, and Criticism at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her books include
Leonardo da Vinci's Paragone (1992);
Reframing the Renaissance: Visual Culture in Europe and Latin America, 1450-1650 (1995);
Leonardo da Vinci: Selected Scholarship in English, 5 vols. (1999);
Leonardo da Vinci and the Ethics of Style (2008);
Re-Reading Leonardo: The Treatise on Painting across Europe 1550-1900 (2009); and
Art Is Not What You Think It Is, co-authored with Donald Preziosi (2012).
Janis Bell (Ph.D., 1983) is an independent scholar. She has published widely on early modern art and art theory, particularly on Leonardo da Vinci, Matteo Zaccolini, Raphael, Caravaggio, Cassiano dal Pozzo, and on the legacy of ancient and medieval optical theory. She is contributing co-editor (with Thomas Willette) of
Art History in the Age of Bellori (2002).
Carlo Vecce (Ph.D., 1986) is Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Naples "L'Orientale." He is a widely published scholar of Italian literature and Renaissance culture. He is co-author of the critical edition of Leonardo's
Book on Painting (1995); editor of the
Codex Arundel (1998); and author of a biography of Leonardo (1998; rev. ed. 2006), which has been translated into several languages.
