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Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-divisionundergraduates, graduate students, andresearchers/faculty. ( Choice , 1 November2013) I highly recommend the very important and fascinatingbook ItalianRenaissance Art: Understanding its Meaning by Christiane L.Joost-Gaugier, to any historians, art critics, art history andRenaissance history students and academics, and to anyone seeking adeeper understanding of the real meaning and currents that werepresent in Renaissance Italy. This book will transform how you viewthe art and the artists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries inItaly, and guide you toward thinking of the Renaissance as animportant idea and not as a time period. ( MoneyTalks , 13 April 2013)

<p> I highly recommend the very important and fascinating book Italian Renaissance Art: Understanding its Meaning by Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier, to any historians, art critics, art history and Renaissance history students and academics, and to anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the real meaning and currents that were present in Renaissance Italy. This book will transform how you view the art and the artists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Italy, and guide you toward thinking of the Renaissance as an important idea and not as a time period. ( Blog Business World , 13 April 2013)<p> I highly recommend the very important and fascinating book Italian Renaissance Art: Understanding its Meaning by Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier, to any historians, art critics, art history and Renaissance history students and academics, and to anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the real meaning and currents that were present in Renaissance Italy. This book will transform how you view the art and the artists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Italy, and guide you toward thinking of the Renaissance as an important idea and not as a time period. ( Money Talks , 13 April 2013)

<p> Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers/faculty. (Choice, 1 November 2013) <p> I highly recommend the very important and fascinating book Italian Renaissance Art: Understanding its Meaning by Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier, to any historians, art critics, art history and Renaissance history students and academics, and to anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the real meaning and currents that were present in Renaissance Italy. This book will transform how you view the art and the artists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Italy, and guide you toward thinking of the Renaissance as an important idea and not as a time period. (Money Talks, 13 April 2013)

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Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier is a three-time graduate of Harvard University (AB, AM, PhD) and an internationally known art historian. She has taught and lectured in numerous universities internationally and has chaired departments at several American universities. Professor Joost-Gaugier has written extensively on Italian art and architecture and has authored more than 200 publications, including six books. Her work has been supported by numerous research grants and published in international journals, exhibition catalogues, and conference proceedings. In 2005 she was awarded an honorary Phi Beta Kappa by Harvard University for Lifetime Achievement.

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