Examines the life, work, and world of the medieval Italian artist, and assesses his impact on later art.

This book is a revisionist account of central Italian painting in the period 1260 - 1370.

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"The preface to the second Italian edition was translated by Marguerite Shore"--T.p. verso.

The artist who influenced the whole of the Italian Renaissance, of whom Vasari wrote "GIOTTO restored the link between art and nature."