Bøker av Hayden B. J. Maginnis

Siena of the 13th and 14th centuries was one of the great cities of Europe, and its artists were among those who reshaped the nature and place of painting. Maginnis' book asks the fundamental questions about the painters' lives and work and shows how Sienese society shaped them.

A revisionist account of central Italian painting in the period from 1260 to 1370, this work discusses Vasari's account of the "first age" of the Renaissance and the character of the historiographical tradition that arose from that account. The origins of many modern views are considered.