Italian Renaissance Sculpture (Introduction to Italian Sculpture)

First published in 1955-63, Sir John Pope-Hennessy's classic Introduction to Italian Sculpture still stands as the definitive introduction to the subject It brings order to a huge mass of material, and present a magisterial survey of one of the most creative phases in Western art It has Long been indispensable for scholars, students, curators, collectors and dealers The masterly narrative is a triumph of clear organization, aesthetic judgement and sustained scholarship Provides a lucid account of a rich and complex period, with a vast mass of well-organized scholarly bibliography Includes the work of the three great masters of the High Renaissance, Mannerism and the Baroque: Michelangelo, Giambologna and Bernini