About the Author

Janet Abramowicz is an independent scholar specialising in Italian art. For twenty years she was senior lecturer in the Department of Fine Arts at Harvard University. A practising artist, she has been the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim, Fulbright and Rockefeller Foundations.

Reviews

"This is a fascinating portrait of a complex artist. Recommended for academic and larger public library art collections."-Library Journal Library Journal "The virtue of Janet Abramowicz's recent book on [Morandi] ... is that it situates Morandi more fully in his time and his place without in any way detracting from the genuinely, touchingly modest aspects of his life."-Jed Perl, New Republic -- Jed Perl New Republic