Of course, the illustrations are better than a normal textbooks. But that's the point, isn't it?
I've decided something about Art History: I'm not really getting as much out of it as I would like. Italian Renaissance Art will have an off-handed reference to Lorenzo the Magnificent, or Julius II, and then move on, and I'm aching for more than the mer. Renaissance Art History is the history of the Italian city states, told through a lens of marble and tempera which frankly is making the entire affair much less interesting than it ought to be. The story of how the bastard child of Alexander VI almost reunited Italy is, frankly, a more compelling tale to hear than a discourse of the symbolism inherent in Michelangel's (admittedly unusual) Laurentian library staircase.
I am just a poor boy, baby, looking to connect