Maud Cruttwell’s Luca Signorelli is a critical study of the Italian Renaissance painter, best remembered for the powerful frescoes of the Last Judgment in Orvieto Cathedral. Part of the Great Masters in Painting and Sculpture series, the book traces Signorelli’s career, attributes and describes his works, and assesses his command of the muscular human figure that anticipated Michelangelo.
Cruttwell, a respected scholar of Italian art, combines connoisseurship with biographical narrative, setting the painter in the artistic world of Umbria and Tuscany. It remains a useful monograph on a major Quattrocento master. This free EPUB download is cleanly formatted for any e-reader.