“It’s a beautiful book,” says Library volunteer Susan Kerr, carefully positioning the newest addition to their collection of Current and Upcoming Exhibition resources.

She is talking about Florence at the Dawn of the Renaissance, the 426-page catalogue for the exhibition that will open at the AGO on March 16, 2013. The book is scholarly as well as sumptuous, featuring more than 200 full-colour illustrations and a text that considers both the influential artists of the period – Giotto, Daddi and others – and the larger artistic community that, collectively, contributed so much to Florence’s artistic legacy.

Says the Getty Museum, which produced the catalogue:  “It places particular emphasis on those artists who worked in both panel painting and manuscript illuminations, and presents new conservation research and scientific analyses that shed light on artists’ techniques and workshop practices of the times.”

This book, like every other resource in the Edward P. Taylor Research Library, is available to all volunteers, for our research and sheer pleasure.

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