Italian Art, Society, and Politics: A Festschrift for Rab Hatfield: 03 (Villa Rossa Series: Intercultural Perspectives on Italy and Europe) - Softcover

This engaging collection of fifteen essays offers new perspectives on a wide range of subjects in Italian art history, architecture, history, and urban studies. Topics range from eleventh-century urbanism in Florence and northern influences on Lombard painting to the rewriting of history in the nascent Italian state. The contributors are former students of Syracuse University's Florence Graduate Program in Renaissance Art.The volume is dedicated to Professor Rab Hatfield, a renowned teacher and scholar in Italian Renaissance studies. He has taught at Syracuse University in Florence since 1971.

Barbara Deimling started working at the Syracuse University in Florence in 1997 and was its director from 2000; in this capacity she was responsible for all matters relating to the Florence Center. She has published books about Italian Renaissance painting. Barbara Deimling lives and works in Florence.

Gary M. Radke is Dean's Professor of the Humanities, Syracuse University. He is editor of a book on Verrocchio's David and co-author of "Art, Power, and Patronage in ""Renaissance Florence," among many other publications on Italian Renaissance art.