Each entry includes a listing of artists and weavers

Under pressure to exhibit and sell its artistic products abroad

With richly reproduced illustrations

Teviotdale is a former associate curator of manuscripts at the Getty Museum

Paragons and Paragone: Van Eyck, Raphael, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Bernini medieval Each entry includes a listingRudolf Preimesberger The paragonethe notion of competition and rivalry among the artshas been a topic of debate for centuries. It erupted with great force in the Renaissance, with sculptors vying with painters for superiority, modern artists competing with the ancients, and painting challenging poetry. If the traces of this lively conversation are most evident in the literature, the remarkable scholarship presented here demonstrates how the paragone