ISBN: 9780205010479

Edition: Fourth edition.

Description: 576 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 30 cm

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

• Introduction: Art in Context
• The Late Thirteenth and the Fourteenth Century
• The Origins of the Resistance
• Rome: Artists, Popes, and Cardinals
• Assisi and Padua: Narrative Realism
• Florence: Traditions and Innovations
• Siena: City of the Virgin
• Naples: Art for a Royal Kingdom
• Venice: The Most Serene Republic
• Pisa and Florence: Social Upheaval
• Visconti Milan and Carrara Padua
• The Fifteenth Century
• Florence: Commune and Guild
• Florence: The Medici and Political Propaganda
• Rome: Re-establishing Papal Power
• Venice: Affirming the Past and Present
• Courtly Art: The Gothic and Classic
• Sforza Milan: Ducal Splendor
• The First Half of the Sixteenth Century
• Florence: The Renewed Republic
• Rome: Julius II, Leo X, and Clement VII
• Florence: Mannerism and the Medici
• Mantua, Parma, and Genoa: The Arts at Court
• Venice: Vision and Monumentality
• The Latter Sixteenth Century
• The Rome of Paul II
• Northern Italy: Reform and Innovation
• Florence under Cosimo I
• Rome: A European Capital City.

LCCN: 2011000226

Control Number: 1997710

Subjects:

• Art, Italian.
• Art, Renaissance -- Italy.
• Italy -- Civilization -- 1268-1559.

Other Authors: Radke, Gary M., author.