The Great Masters of Italian Art: 52 Artists - 250 Masterpieces (Art) (Paperback)

Review
This lavish production by the Florentine publishers Scala utilises the format and quality of full-sized hardback art books resized in paperback form with outstanding results. A condensed overview of Italian art between the end of the thirteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth, its sumptuous colour photographs and carefully chosen magnifications allow the full grandeur and beauty of the work of some of the world's most famous and talented artists to shine through with luminous vitality. Hundreds of full-colour reproductions grace the surprisingly compact 400 pages of this work. The greatest Italian masters are represented here - Botticelli, da Vinci, Raphael, Titian, Michelangelo - alongside many lesser