Three Studies

Contains three essays by the Italian art critic, connoisseur, and historian, whose work is at once scholarly and novelistic, employing imaginary dialogues between artists, poetic description, and humor. Includes color and b&w illustrations. For students and scholars.

Roberto Longhi (1890 - 1970) is regarded by Italians as their most important art critic, art historian, and prose stylist of this century, with unsurpassed powers of observation and description.

"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." -- Francis Haskell, New York Review of Books