Early Italian Painting 1290-1470
Boskovits, Miklos / Chiarini, Francoise Pouncey
Representative of the quality of the fourteenth and fifteenth century Italian paintings in the Thyssen Bornemisza Collection is the panel from the back 'predella' of Duccio's "Maesta" for Siena Cathedral. Other "Trecento" and early "Quattrocento" artists in this volume include Fra Angelico, Bernardo Daddi, Agnolo and Taddeo Gaddi, Giovanni di Paolo, Lorenzo Veneziano, Paolo Uccello and Vitale da Bologna with concise biographies of each artist.