Богато иллюстрированное подарочное издание в двух томах. Книги в суперобложках вложены в оригинально оформленный подарочный футляр. The Italian Renaissance is one of the most stimulating periods in all cultural history. Yet the more that is written about it, the harder it gets to describe this exciting epoch adequately. Scholarship meanders into endless historical and aesthetic reflection, expertise gets bogged down in minute detail. Both these volumes are based on Giorgio Vasari"s celebrated distinction between disegno (underlying intellectual structure) and colore (the sensual qualities of color), as well as Heinrich Wolfflin"s closely related concepts of the "linear" and the "painterly," contrasting Florence with central Italy, Venice with Upper Italy. Equally, though, these volumes show us time and again how porous the dividing lines are. Both volumes are based on the conviction that personal judgement is paramount in visual art, and that good art history...