An Art Lover’s Guide to Florence

by Judith Testa

http://amazon.com/dp/0875806805

No city but Florence contains such an intense concentration of art produced in such a short span of time. While most guidebooks offer only brief descriptions of a large number of works, with little discussion of the historical background, Judith Testa concentrates on a number of the greatest works, by such masters as Botticelli and Michelangelo, explaining each piece in terms of what it meant to the people who produced it and for whom they made it, deftly treating the complex interplay of politics, sex, and religion that were involved in the creation of those works.