"A collection of essays published in periodicals between 1937 and 1970."

Includes bibliographical references.

The putto with the Death's head.--Titian's Laocoon caricature and the Vesalian-Galenist controversy.--The "image made by chance" in Renaissance thought.--Fuseli's Nightmare.--Nanni di Banco's Assumption of the virgin on the Porta della Mandorla.--Giovanni Chellini's Libro and Donatello.--The image of man in Renaissance art: from Donatello to Michelangelo.--Originality as a ground for judgment of excellence.--The equestrian monument from Cangrande della Scala to Peter the Great.--Observations on nudity in neoclassical art.--Ground plan and elevation in Masaccio's Trinity fresco.--Rodin and Carrier-Belleuse: the Vase des titans.--Donatello and the antique.--The right arm of Michelangelo's Moses.--The meaning of Giganti.--Criteria of periodization in the history of European art.