The Aesthetics of Italian Renaissance Art
A Reconsideration of Style

"Wohl's interpretation finds support in contemporary descriptions, the revival of clasical rhetoric and its preference for ornamentation, and in an examinaton of the totality of Renaissance art to include stained glass, tapestry, intarsie, stuccos, tile work, and mosaic - visual genre too often ignored in the past. Throughout, the text presents a methodically constructed effort to refocus our visual evaluation of the varied arts of the Renaissance and to encourage us to see the works from the actual standpoint of those for whom it was intended...for those interested in seeing th totality of the Renaissance vision, The Aesthetics of Italian Renaissance Art is well worth the effort. The endnotes are substantial and, often, quite illuminating, and the bibliography offers evidence of the author's wide-ranging and thorough knowledge of the pertinent literature from the familiar to the more obscure." Renaissance Quarterly