Randolph Starn

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.

A young American art historian in Venice finds herself caught up in an art world sensation. The stakes are high. So are the risk of clashing ambitions over previously unknown paintings attributed to the founding genius of Renaissance art. In one image an Egyptian martyr saint is a black warrior in armor, in the other a white knight. Both by Giotto? One or the other? Neither?