professor of Etruscology and Italian archaeology at the University of Florence

Burckhardt chose to read the source materials and extant works of the Italian Renaissance synchronically

This monograph takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of Brueghel's fascinating paradise landscape

Richard Wolbers

Scientific analyses and detailed photographs reveal both how the pieces were cast and pieced together in antiquity and how they were restored in the eighteenth century

Modern Japanese Art and the Meiji State: The Politics of Beauty Murua professor of Etruscology and ItalianDshin Sat Translated by Hiroshi Nara This broad ranging and profoundly influential analysis describes how Western art institutions and vocabulary were transplanted to Japan in the late nineteenth century. In the 1870s and 1880s, artists, government administrators, and others in Japan encountered the Western "system of the arts" for the first time, as objects and information from Japan reached European and American audiences following the collapse of