Renaissance Rivals: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Titian

by Rona Goffen

This enthralling book views the lives and greatest works of the Renaissance masters through the prism of their ardent rivalry. Rona Goffen, one of the most highly respected scholars of the Italian Renaissance today, brings Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, and Titian to life in this lively account of their passionate strivings to outdo both living competitors and the masters of antiquity.

Genres: Art, Art History, Nonfiction, History, Biography, Renaissance

304 pages, Hardcover

First published November 10, 2002

Reviews

[Emma]

Wide-ranging to an almost exhausting extent, but very well researched and certainly convincing.

[Bernard]

I have to finish this fantastic book. I e-mailed the author just a month before she passed away to tell her how much I was enjoying it. She was very kind to respond back that I'd made her day!

[Willis]

Written by an art expert, this was a little too much for me. You'd need some background on the Renaissance painters to get the most of the book. I did appreciate the many visuals of different works of art throughout the book.

[Stash]

Very dry and very specious (maybe more fallacious). I can't even begin to get into what I thought were the problems with this book but I would not recommend this text to anyone.