A history of painting in Italy : Umbria, Florence and Siena from the second to the sixteenth century
Volume of Crowe and Cavalcaselle's scholarly survey of Umbrian, Florentine and Sienese painting, reissued in London by John Murray in 1903 for art historians, collectors and students. Full-page halftone plates reproduce frescoes and altarpieces by Duccio, Lorenzetti and their contemporaries: ranked rows of haloed saints, enthroned Madonnas, Nativity interiors and crowded Crucifixions, useful for medieval figure groupings, drapery and gold-ground composition.































