Book Description
Giorgio Vasari remarked that Luca Signorelli was "as famous a painter in Italy as any one has ever been." Mentored by Piero della Francesca, he developed a unique style which was characterized by violent and torturous movement of the figures and complex iconography. In this continuation of our successful Renaissance painters' series, Signorelli experts Tom Henry and Laurence Kanter offer a thorough consideration of the artist's entire body of painting in the first comprehensive treatment of his work.


About the Author
Laurence Kanter is Curator-in-Charge of the Robert Lehman Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. His recent publications include Italian Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence.

Tom Henry, professor of Renaissance art at Oxford Brookes University, was awarded his doctorate in 1996 from the Courtauld Institute of Art with an emphasis on the work of Raphael and Signorelli. He has written articles on the subject of Renaissance art for Burlington Magazine and Apollo. His most recent booklength works include The National Gallery (London) Illustrated Catalogue and Signorelli in British Collections.

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