Roger Fry (1866-1934) is best known as a champion of Post-Impressionism and a pioneer of Modernist art criticism. But his fi rst love was early Italian painting, on which he became a recognized authority, publishing a monograph on Giovanni Bellini in 1899. Even after the Post-Impressionist exhibitions in 1910 and 1912 and the foundation of the Omega Workshops, Fry continued to write and lecture on Italianart right up until his death. He looked at modernism through Quattrocento eyes rather than the other way around, as is often wrongly assumed. It is impossible not to be struck by how fresh and immediately readable his writings are, how pioneering in some ways his approach remains. His work on Italian art modifi es the received view of him as a pure formalist. Apart from a famous article on Giotto which Fry republished in Vision and Design (1920), the writings on Italian art are relatively little known, and a selection of the best of them is republished here, thus introducing an important aspect of Fry's many-sided work to a new audience. The fi rst part of the book sets Fry's writing on Italian art into context by combining intellectual biography with the history of art history, art criticism and art institutions. It draws on new documentary material, including Fry's travel notebooks, which contain sketches and brilliant observations taken down in front of works of art. By exploring the whole range of Fry's published and unpublished writings, theauthor is able to refute erroneous received ideas - that he was uninterested in colour, for example. The infl uence of his Italian lectures and publications on such fi gures as E.M. Forster, Kenneth Clark and Michael Baxandall is also examined. The second part consists of writings by Fry - each with an introductory text by the author and fully illustrated in colour. Included in this volume are some of the unpublished lectures that his biographer Virginia Woolf suggested would make a fascinating book of extracts. Four long pieces are of outstanding interest - on Uccello, Piero della Francesca, Baldovinetti and Piero di Cosimo, all artists whose critical status was radically re-examined in the twentieth century. Fry had a close and lifelong connection with The Burlington Magazine, as cofounder, contributor, saviour-fundraiser, editor (1909-1919) and adviser. Roger Fry and Italian Art is appropriately the fi rst in a series of books on art history to be published by The Burlington Magazine and Ad Ilissvm in association - to be announced in due course.

Traces the career of the nineteenth-century English art critic and painter, who associated with the Bloomsbury group, Picasso, and Bernard Shaw

Foreword / John Murdoch -- Preface / Christopher Green -- pt. I. Essays on Roger Fry: art, criticism and design. Into the twentieth century: Roger Fry's project seen from 2000 / Christopher Green ; Out of the nineteenth century: Roger Fry's early art criticism, 1900-1906 / Elizabeth Prettejohn ; Fathers and sons: Walter Sickert and Roger Fry / Anna Greutzner Robins ; From art quake to pure visual music : Roger Fry and modern British art, 1910-1916 / Richard Cork ; Roger Fry's social vision of art / Judith Collins -- pt. II. Essays on Roger Fry: remaking the canon. Roger Fry and early Italian art / Caroline Elam ; European 'masterpieces' for America: Roger Fry and the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Flaminia Gennari Santori ; Expanding the canon: Roger Fry's evaluations of the 'civilized' and the 'savage' / Christopher Green -- pt. III. Roger Fry's canon: From African sculpture to Vlaminck, incorporating the catalogue of the exhibition / Christopher Green -- A lecture by Roger Fry: 'Principles of Design. I. General ideas, paleolithic and neolithic, eary art to Giotto' -- Bibliography -- Index.

A unique, intimate view into the life and art of the Spanish painter Francisco Goya, one of the most celebrated artists of the last two hundred years, was granted when an inventory of his own personal easel pictures was made close to the end of his life. It revealed the selection of pieces which the artist kept for himself or wanted around him as he worked on more public projects. These pictures, many of them famous, have been brought together again in this volume, which documents an international traveling exhibition opening in Philadelphia.

A major biography--the first comprehensive new assessment to be published in decades--of the brilliant work and restless life of Paul Cezanne, the most influential painter of his time, whose vision revolutionized the role of the painter.