Irreverent Art History From the Fall of the Western Roman Empire to the End of the Middle Ages

This book is not an ordinary history of art. Nor is it a tour through the great works of universal art that usually appear in school textbooks. Nor is it a recipe book for distinguishing Romanesque from Gothic art.

This is an irreverent and groundbreaking history of art that focuses on Western Europe and the Mediterranean, from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to the 15th century.

Alberto Garín, archaeologist and art historian, offers the reader a surprising artistic journey through places such as Rome, Constantinople, Damascus, Granada and Florence, with the aim of exploring and observing, with acuity and erudition, the sensibility of those artists whose work has contributed to building the culture and the world in which we live.

Foreword by Fernando Díaz Villanueva

Publisher: La Esfera de los Libros