This is the first complete translation of the biographies of fifteen artists, including Annibale Carracci, Carvaggio, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Poussin, written by

A new title in the successful Lives of the Artists series, which offers illuminating, and often intimate, accounts of iconic artists as viewed by their contempo

This is the first complete translation of the biographies of fifteen artists, including Annibale Carracci, Carvaggio, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Poussin, written by

This volume examines how and why many early modern pictures operate in an ekphrastic mode.

A comprehensive re-assessment of Raphael's artistic achievement and the ways in which it transformed the idea of what art is.