Stephen J. Campbell

How our image of the Renaissance's most famous artist is a modern myth. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) never signed a painting, and none of his supposed self-portraits can be securely ascribed to his hand. He revealed next to nothing about his life in his extensive writings, yet countless pages have been written about him that assign him an identity: genius,...

A New History of Italian Renaissance Art, authored by Stephen J. Campbell and Michael W. Cole, brings a fresh perspective to the study of Italian Renaissance art. As respected teachers and active researchers, Campbell and Cole draw on both traditional and current scholarship to present complex interpretations in this engaging account. The book's unique decade-by-decade structure is both easy to...