The Italian painter Andrea del Castagno (1421-1457) was a leading artist in the early Florentine Renaissance. Andrea del Castagno was born in a village in the hills east of Florence. He is first recorded in Florence in 1440, when he was commissioned to...

It is not difficult to explain why, until relatively recently, few visitors to Florence routinely went to see Andrea del Castagno's Last Supper, although the fresco is hardly off the beaten track at S. Apollonia. Only two blocks from that more publicized tourist...

Del Lungo, Andrea. L'Incipit romanesque. Paris: Editions du Seuil, Collection "Poetique" 2003. Pp. 377. ISBN 2020571803 "It was a dark and stormy night...." Few subjects lend themselves to such scrutiny in criticism--aesthetic and philosophical, thematic and formal, stylistic and rhetorical--as literary opening...