Marilyn Aronberg Lavin has taught the history of art at Washington University, the University of Maryland, Yale, Princeton, and Universita di Roma, La Sapienza. Specializing in Italian 13th16th centur
Francesca (1413?-1492) painted his masterpiece in fresco on the chancel walls of the Church of San Francesco, Arezzo. Art historian Lavin explains the work, which is based on a complex compilation of
Vasari's colorful and detailed portraits of the most representative figures of Italian art trace the flowering of the Renaissance across three centuries. This single-volume edition of selections from