In the Light of Apollo. Italian Renaissance and Greece

This work is published for the exhibition held at the National Art Museum and Alexander Soutzos Museum in Athens, within the events organized for the Olympic Games which will be hosted by Greece this year. This important exhibition is devoted to the relationship between Italian Renaissance and Ancient Greece, as the origin and the everlasting source of inspiration for Western civilization.

Through over five hundred pieces, the exhibition shows the major events of the re-discovery by Italian humanists of the ancient Greek civilization, and the following artistic elaboration of the models taken from it, which reaches its climax in the works by the great protagonists of Italian Renaissance, as Mantegna, Pollaiolo, Botticelli, the Venetian School, to Leonardo and Michelangelo.

The work, with a rich iconographic material, gathers the contributions from important scholars and specialists, who treat the many aspects related to the subject of the exhibition.

The first volume includes the illustrations of all the works on show accompanied by relevant captions; the second one includes the entries of the works and the essays.