Three Studies

"Students of art history deep in the throes of research on Masolino, Masaccio, Carlo Braccesco, or Caravaggio's prototypes may see this book as a great discovery. . . .To Italian Renaissance scholars of his day, he was famous for a decades-long feud with art history legend Bernard Berenson as well as for his distinctive writing style. Typically, in these three essays, Longhi continuously corrects the alleged errors of his contemporaries in extensive and personally charged footnotes, which today read like so much gossip. To better effect, Longhi's unusual approach shows in his description of the relationship between Masolino and Masaccio illustrated via the portrayal of the two characters having a conversation."—Library Journal

"Roberto Longhi . . . the most brilliant Italian art historian of our century and a stylist of intoxicating powers. Apart from his monograph on Piero della Francesca, few of Longhi's very idiosyncratic works have been translated into English; but, thanks to the enterprise of The Sheep Meadow Press, this situation is at last being remedied, and one must welcome the appearance of Three Studies."—The New York Review of Books