This is one of the classic studies of Renaissance art, artists, issues, architecture and sculpture by one of the finest writers on art in modern times, John Addington Symonds. Renaissance In Italy is a volume in Symonds' long series The Fine Arts (first published in 1899). It is a broad survey of Italian Renaissance culture, featuring chapters on Cellini, Michelangelo, Venetian painting, medieval and Renaissance architecture, sculpture, and painting throughout Italy.

Includes an appendix on Michelangelo's Sonnets (which Symonds translated - also published by Crescent Moon), a chronological table, and extensive footnotes.

Fully illustrated in a brand new format. Painters Series. 464 pages.

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