' .an extemely rich and informative account. ' David Hemsoll, JEMH , 2005. ' This is surely one of the most stimulating books on Renaissance art history written in recent years. ' Robert W. Gaston, Renaissance Quarterly . ' This is a big book - an ambitious, wide-ranging, spirited, learned, and expansive book. It will be of interest to those scholars of Italian Renaissance art especially concerned with the emergence of the modern idea of the artist.

a rich weave of intellectual history.The virtue of Emison's bountiful book is that it both consolidates and broadens our view of the modern idea of the "divine" artist. Her stimulating work now puts us in an excellent position, however, to turn our attention more fully to the partially acknowledged but still far too negelected role of theology in shaping Renaissance ideas about the "divine" artist. ' Paul Barolsky, CAA Reviews , 2004. Well versed in cinquecento literary and musical theory as well as the visual arts, Emison has written a work that is wide-ranging, imaginative, graceful, and citation-rich. From cover to binding, the book is also beautifully produced, with dozens of seldom-seen images complementing the text. James C. Hughes, Sixteenth Century Journal XXXVII/1 (2006).