Philippe Costamagna is a specialist in sixteenth-century Italian painting and director of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Ajaccio, Corsica. He is the author of a book on the Florentine Renaissance painter Pontormo. Frank Wynne is an award-winning translator from French and Spanish, who has translated works by Michel Houellebecq, Claude Lanzmann, Frédéric Beigbeder and Yasmina Khadra. He is the author of I Was Vermeer, a nonfiction book about art forger Han van Meegeren.
"By placing connoisseurship back at the very center of art history,
Philippe Costamagna weaves a fascinating tale and brilliantly
highlights the enduring power of intuition and expertise in the
visual arts today."
--Salvatore Settis, chairman of the Louvre Museum Scientific
Council and author of If Venice Dies
"Initiates us with quiet elegance, part historical essay, part
autobiographical account, enriched by a thousand anecdotes, The Eye
follows its meandering path to our great delight."
--Le Monde
"Passionate and often funny ... This work is very rich."
--La Tribune de l'Art
"As thrilling as a police novel."
--La Croix
"Chapters full of tasty anecdotes."
--Il Foglio "By placing connoisseurship back at the very center of
art history, Philippe Costamagna weaves a fascinating tale and
brilliantly highlights the enduring power of intuition and
expertise in the visual arts today." --Salvatore Settis, chairman
of the Louvre Museum Scientific Council and author of If Venice
Dies"Initiates us with quiet elegance, part historical essay, part
autobiographical account, enriched by a thousand anecdotes, The Eye
follows its meandering path to our great delight."--Le Monde
"Passionate and often funny ... This work is very rich."--La
Tribune de l'Art
"As thrilling as a police novel."--La Croix
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