Fit for a Saint
Nicholas Penny, 6 April 1995
The Altarpiece in Renaissance Venice
by Peter Humfrey.
Yale, 382 pp., £19.95, May 1995,0 300 05358 4 Show More
by Peter Humfrey.
Yale, 382 pp., £19.95, May 1995,
Italian Altarpieces 1250-1550: Function and Design
edited by Eve Borsook and Fiorella SuperbiGioffredi.
Oxford, 296 pp., £45, September 1994,0 19 817223 0 Show More
edited by Eve Borsook and Fiorella SuperbiGioffredi.
Oxford, 296 pp., £45, September 1994,
“... The most significant event to have taken place in Italy in recent years, as far as the art and architecture of that country is concerned, is the institution of an annual opening of numerous normally inaccessible historic buildings in Naples, organised by the private charity Napoli Novantanove. The two open days in May last year attracted a million visitors ... ”
