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An important contribution to the wider history of the art and culture of Renaissance Venice, the book is also highly informative about a range of related topics [. . .] It is to be hoped that Yale University Press will continue its tradition of producing art-historical books of such elegant design and excellent scholarship. -Peter Humfrey, The Burlington Magazine Winner of The 2019 Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Best Book Prize in Renaissance Venetian Studies, sponsored by the Renaissance Society of America Recipient of the 2019 Helen & Howard R. Marraro Prize, sponsored by the American Historical Association

This beautiful book presents a class of paintings not created for manuscripts of biblical or other texts, but instead produced as independent documents when patricians were commissioned as high officials of the Venetian state. --Choice In this heavily illustrated, scholarly documented and eminently readable volume, the author introduces the reader to a long-hidden world of beautiful and complex images and to tales of personal sacrifice, political maneuvering and family intrigue. --Antiques and the Arts Weekly Provides an extensive analysis of the small paintings within manuscripts, with particular attention to the history and culture of art patronage in Venice. For collectors in this area, this heavily illustrated book is indispensable. --Rebecca Rego Barry, Fine Books & Collections

This beautiful book presents a class of paintings not created for manuscripts of biblical or other texts, but instead produced as independent documents when patricians were commissioned as high officials of the Venetian state. --Choice In this heavily illustrated, scholarly documented and eminently readable volume, the author introduces the reader to a long-hidden world of beautiful and complex images and to tales of personal sacrifice, political maneuvering and family intrigue. --Antiques and the Arts Weekly

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Helena Katalin Szépe is associate professor of art history in the School of Art and Art History at the University of South Florida, Tampa.  

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