num_pages: 778
description: The National Gallery of Art collection of Italian fifteenth-century paintings, the finest in any American museum, has not been published in its entirety since the 1979 Catalogue of Italian Paintings by Fern Rusk Shapley. Among the altarpieces, devotional works, portraits, and allegoricalscenes are many world-famous masterpieces. In addition to Leonardo's Ginevra de' Benci and the Adoration of the Magi by Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi, paintings by Domenico Veneziano, Castagno, Sassetta, Mantegna, Giovanni Bellini, Perugino, Botticelli, and Ghirlandaio make this a book of majormasters of the Renaissance.
language: English
title: Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century
titlecomplete: Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century (A Publication of the National Gallery of Art, Washington)
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Oxford University Press