Books in the Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History series

Over several centuries, Venice fashioned and refined a portrait of itself that responded to historical circumstance, broadcasting itself as the ideal state whose ruling patriciate were devoted to the commonweal. This text explores the myth, imagery and it's effect on the civic imagination.

A thorough foundation for the fresh recognition of one of the great painters of eighteenth-century Europe, a leading fresco painter who is a colorist worthy of comparison to the best of his contemporaries.

The putto (often portrayed as a mischievous baby) appears frequently in the art and literature of Renaissance Italy. The ""spiritelli"" embody a minor species of demon, neither good not bad. This book discusses the manifestations of the putto-spiritello in 15th-century art and literature.