Duccio Di Buoninsegna (The Library of Great Masters)
each volume in the Library of Great Masters provides succinct historical and biographical information about the artist and his work, accompanied by approximately 100 color plates including many full-page (8-1/4 x 11 inch) reproductions. These color-rich and finely-detailed books are excellent introductions to the lives and work of remarkable and enduringly influential Renaissance artists and contain substantially more examples of their paintings and sculptures than a chapter on Italian art in a standard art-history textbook. And the price can't be beat. --Booklist, 12/15/94