The Quattro Cento. A Different Conception of the Italian Renaissance. Part One [all published]: Florence and Verona, an Essay in Italian Fifteenth-Century Architecture and Sculpture.

Bookseller Notes

The copy of artist Rex Whistler, his ownership inscription in ink at the head of the title-page, dated 1932; to the same, he has provided pencil annotations - remarking of its subtitle, 'Different from what?', and supplementing it with the sarcastic comment, 'Being an unreadable, foolish & much too expensive work of a very young man'. It might be remarked of the latter that Whistler was three years younger than Stokes, curmudgeonly at 27. His patience clearly tested early, there is no further annotation to the work itself.Despite Whistler's reservations, Stokes's work is well-regarded as an account of Renaissance sculpture.