About the Author

Luke Syson is Curator of Medals at the British Museum. He has written a series of articles on fifteenth-century Italian portraiture and co-edited The Image of the Individual: Portraits in the Renaissance. He is co-author of Objects of Virtue: Art in Renaissance Italy, to be published in Autumn 2001. Dillian Gordon is Curator of Italian Paintings before 1500 at the National Gallery, London. Her previous publications include Making and Meaning: The Wilton Diptych, and as co-author, Giotto to Durer: Early Renaissance Painting in the National Gallery. She is author of the National Gallery Catalogue The Italian Paintings 1400-1460, to be published in Autumn 2001. Susanna Avery-Quash is Assistant Curator of Italian Renaissance Paintings at the National Gallery, London.