Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Earls, Irene. Artists of the Renaissance / Irene Earls. p. cm.

(Artists of an era, ISSN 1541955X) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0313319375 (alk. paper) 1. Art, Italian. 2. Art, RenaissanceItaly. I. Title. II. Series. N6915.E172004 709'.45'09024dc22 2003061267 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available. Copyright 2004 by Irene Earls All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, by any process or technique, without the express written consent of the publisher. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2003061267 ISBN: 0313319375 ISSN: 1541955X First published in 2004 Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881 An imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. www.greenwood.com Printed in the United States of America

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The author and publisher gratefully acknowledge permission to reprint the following material: Excerpts from Renaissance Art, Irene Earls. Copyright 1987 by Irene Earls. Reproduced with permission of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., Westport, CT. Text extract reproduced from Signs & Symbols in Christian Art by George Ferguson, copyright 1956 Phaidon Press Limited. Text extract reproduced from Donatello by David G. Wilkins and Bonnie A. Bennett Phaidon Press Limited. Excerpts from The Oxford Companion to Art, edited by Harold Osborne. Copyright 1970. By permission of Oxford University Press. Excerpts from Lives of the Artists Volume I, by Giorgio Vasari, translated by George Bull. Penguin Classics, 1965. Translation George Bull, 1965. Michelangelo, by Howard Hibbard. Copyright 2004 by Perseus Books Group. Reproduced with permission, via Copyright Clearance Center. Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art, by James Hall. Copyright 1979 by Perseus Books Group. Reproduced with permission, via Copyright Clearance Center. History of Italian Renaissance Art, 3/E by Frederick Hartt, 1988. Reprinted by permission of Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, NJ.