Irsa

A wide-range collection of primary sources – including correspondence, treatises, diaries, contracts by artists, their patrons, and other contemporaries – on the role of the art and the artist in fifteenth-century Italy.

This book, a collection of major essays, provides a representative survey of Jan Białostocki’s (1921-1988) studies in the field of iconological research during the last two decades of his life, as well as a comprehensive approach to the interpretation of art.