Abstract
Frederick Hartt's History of Italian Renaissance Art (New York, 1969) is a marvelously complete and imaginative compendium of history, politics, economics, and even weather (p. 89), and it seems to have become a standard college text on the period. For this reason it is especially important to correct some of Hartt's misconceptions about the religious iconography of a number of works he discusses. Many of these mistakes may seem minor, but in a textbook each word is likely to be taken as (so to speak) gospel truth. Furthermore, the errors reflect an unfamiliarity with religious history and liturgical development that is not unusual in the field of art history. Yet, iconographically, these subjects are of great importance; certainly they were for both the artist and his patron.
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