Description: "A new study of the early Renaissance portrait"--
Review Quotes: "In this brilliant study, Christopher Wood traces a time, beginning with Giotto at the start of the fourteenth century and ending with Fra Angelico in the 1550s, during which the rules governing sacred space in painting underwent a radical shift. . . . [T]hrough this study of the embedded portrait, an early stop on our modern journey of disenchantment, we are able to reconstruct the viewpoint, the motives, and the society from which these paintings emerged."---Mary Hogan Camp, Renaissance Quarterly