This volume throws new light on three of the giants of the Italian High Renaissance: Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), and Rafael (1483-1520). The result of a symposium of more than a hundred scholars held during Georgetown University's summer program at Villa Le Balze in Fielsole, Italy, these critiques by four of the scholars center on the brief period from 1500 to 1508 when all three artists were working in Florence. The symposium was moderated by art historian Sir John Pope-Hennessey.
Accompanied by forty-five illustrations, these papers stand as a solid contribution to Renaissance studies. The full color cover has Da Vinci's Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and a Lamb, courtesy of the Louvre.
