Parution : Denis Ribouillault, « The Villa Barbaro at Maser. Science, Philosophy, and the Family in Venetian Renaissance Art », Turnhout, Brepols, 2023
Through a careful description of its architecture, paintings and sculptures, this book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the Villa Barbaro at Maser, one of the most famous masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance. Commissioned and designed by Daniele Barbaro, a leading humanist of the Venetian Renaissance, and his brother Marc’Antonio, an important politician of the Republic of Venice and a talented amateur artist, the villa’s architecture and painted decoration were created by two canonical figures...