Renaissance Siena: Art in Context (review)
text by identifying his literary sources as well as persons, places, and events mentioned, providing locations of works described, clarifying meanings, and correcting factual errors. A “Chronology of the Reigns of Popes, Emperors, and Rulers Relevant to Bellori’s Lives,” three appendices (one of biographical notes on some of the principal figures mentioned in the text, another on the question of Bellori’s accuracy, and the last on “Orientation in Bellori’s Descriptions”), a current bibliography, and an excellent index round out the critical apparatus. This is, in short, a sophisticated and well-conceived edition, which unquestionably will fulfill its stated goal of making “Bellori’s Lives available to the English-speaking public, both general readers and students and specialists” (ix). Beautifully produced in nearly imperial octavo format, with excellent reproductions of all of the original engravings, it is a volume that makes us regret all the more Cambridge University Press’s decision to withdraw from art-historical publications. STEVEN F. OSTROW University of Minnesota