Painting in Italy, 1500-1600

Pelican History of Art

by Sydney Joseph Freedberg

Freedberg discusses the individual painters of the Cinquecento and analyzes the hallmarks of their work. He traces the classical style of the High Renaissance, the Mannerism that succeeded it and the events, in North Italy especially, that resist stylistic categories.

Genres: Art History, Art, Nonfiction

587 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1971

Reviews

[Monica · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is an unpalleled masterpiece written by one of the greatest renaissance art historians of our time. Freedberg chaired the art history department at Harvard and was responsible for documenting some of the greatest mannerist works throughout the world and at the MFA, Boston.