This four-volume set provides the most comprehensive collection of modern scholarly literature on the artist and his work. Assembling writings that are as dispa

This four-volume set provides the most comprehensive collection of modern scholarly literature on the artist and his work. Assembling writings that are as dispa

New studies of the Basilica in Assisi as well as innovative looks at early panel paintings and Franciscan stained glass are included.

This probing analysis of three works by Giotto and the patrons who commissioned them goes far beyond the clichés of Giotto as the founding figure of Western pa

In September, 1219, as the armies of the Fifth Crusade besieged the Egyptian city of Damietta, Francis of Assisi went to Egypt to preach to Sultan al-Malik al-K