The Lies of the ArtistsBy: Ingrid D. Rowland Luminous essays on artists of the Italian Renaissance by one of our most inspired writers on the history and making of art. In the three centuries from 1450 to 1750 painters, sculptors, and architects emerged from the medieval craft guilds of Italy to claim a new social status as creators, whose gorgeous handiwork, now called art, expressed lofty inspiration as much as manual skill. In The Lies of the Artists, Ingrid Rowland