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"This is the third and final volume dedicated to Steinberg's writings about early modern art. (There will also be two centered on modern art.) This volume collects Steinberg's best essays and unpublished lectures about early modern artists and sites ranging from his superb, ground-shifting texts on the Spanish painter Diego Velazquez to an amusing essay on his visit to the Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome, which houses artistic treasures by such luminaries as Bramante, Sansovino, Raphael, Pinturicchio, Sebastiano del Piombo, Carracci, Caravaggio, and Bernini. The other essays are, with one or two exceptions, mainly about Italian masters. The content is quite diverse, and perhaps for this reason this volume is the most pleasurable so far. Steinberg exercises his wit to good effect, and these essays, though frequently dazzling with insight, read as rather more lightly composed than those surrounding Steinberg's grand obsession, Michelangelo"--
Michelangelo's Paintings is the second volume in a series that presents Steinberg's writings, selected and edited by his longtime associate Sheila Schwartz.
"The fifth and final volume of essays by Leo Steinberg is devoted to modern and contemporary art. Expertly edited by Steinberg's longtime assistant Sheila Schwartz, this collection includes essays on Câezanne, Monet, Matisse, Ernst, Hans Haacke, Jasper Johns, Jeff Koons, and, in some ways the centerpiece of the collection, Steinberg's landmark essay "Encounters with Rauschenberg." It concludes with a selection of Steinberg's lesser-known occasional humorous pieces. The collection features an introductory essay by noted scholar and curator James Meyer. As with all volumes in the Essays by Leo Steinberg series, it is lavishly illustrated throughout with works by each of the artists Steinberg analyzes"--
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