Art of Renaissance Rome 1400-1600, The

Part of Prentice Hall's new Perspective series of moderately priced, heavily illustrated, high-quality paperback books on specific subjects in art history, this book discusses the art of Rome in the Renaissance in the context of its patronage. It accounts the extraordinary works of art and architecture sponsored by the popes and Roman noble families—churches, palaces, villas, paintings, frescoes, fountains, sculptures, and illustrated books.