Ames-Lewis (Francis), born 1943

(25 cm), x, 322 pp., 149 illustrations (50 in colour). Publisher’s boards, pictorial dust jacket. - “This well-written volume sets out with precision what is known of the education and training of Italian renaissance artists, as well as their social and cultural activities. The author then considers the relationship of their works to archaeology and poetry, the importance of the paragone, the rôle of ekphrasis, artistic license, invention and fantasia. The section on cultural activities includes an examination of artists’ honours and titles, their civic and courtly responsibilities, their connoisseurship, collections and rôle as artistic advisors” (from a review in The Burlington Magazine, volume 144, 2002, p.700). ¶ Very good, unmarked copy.