Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century (A APublication of the National Gallery of Art Washington)

About this book

The National Gallery of Art collection of Italian fifteenth-century paintings the finest in any American museum has not been published in its entirety since the 1979 Catalogue of Italian Paintings by Fern Rusk Shapley. Among the altarpieces devotional works portraits and allegorical scenes are many world-famous masterpieces. In addition to Leonardos Ginevra de Benci and the Adoration of the Magi by Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi paintings by Domenico Veneziano Castagno Sassetta Mantegna Giovanni Bellini Perugino Botticelli and Ghirlandaio make this a book of major masters of the Renaissance.