如果你对艺术历史感兴趣，但不知道从哪里开始，这本书绝对适合你。作者带着读者横跨不同时代以及地方，解释了从古代世界的到启蒙时代的基本艺术历史知识。这个旅程充满跟随了人类的进化，从原始人对于世界以及存在的好奇以及灵性到之后开始对于宇宙秩序的哲学，再到人道主义以及复兴时代过后成为自己世界的掌握者。这本书没有试图涵盖整个艺术历史，主要是尝试探索构成每个地方和时代的艺术体验的元素和起点的复杂性，通过一系列的考虑和交叉引用，展示了我们的进化如何与我们对美的渴望密不可分地联系在一起。

关于作者：

Claudio Strinati is one of the most authoritative and well-known art experts and a prominent scholar of 17th- century Italian art. He has worked for the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Environments, and was a superintendent for the institute of Rome museums from 2001 and 2009. He writes for many scientific publications, various dailies and has a regular column on the Huffington Post. His book Il giardino dell’arte. Il romanzo di un viaggio fra le meraviglie d’Italia (2019) was also published by Salani.