 | Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death: the arts, religion, and society in the mid-fourteenth century The first extended study of the painting of Florence and Siena in the later 14th century, this book presents a rich interweaving of considerations of connoisseurship, style, iconography, cultural and social background, and historical events. Millard Meiss (1904-1975), an authority on late medieval and Renaissance painting, taught at Columbia University and Harvard University in the course of a distinguished career. At the time of his death he was professor emeritus of the Institute for Advanced Study |
