Original publication: Knox, Giles. “Review of Italian Altarpieces 1250-1550. Function and Design.” Confraternitas 6 (1): 2010. 31-33. DOI: 10.33137/confrat.v6i1.13446. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Confraternitas. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Confraternitas under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see creativecommons.org/licenses/.