ABSTRACT

Organized chronologically from early Renaissance precursors to the Mannerist movement, from Giotto to Titian, Key Monuments of the Italian Renaissance describes and analyzes in depth from various points of view major works and major artists, from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries. Artists included are Cimabue, Duccio, Giotto, Lorenzetti, Gh

chapter Chapter One|12 pages

Key Monuments of Fourteenth-Century Painting

chapter Chapter Two|34 pages

The Florentine Renaissance: 1400–1440s

chapter Chapter Three|21 pages

The Middle Decades of the Quattrocento

chapter Chapter Four|24 pages

The Renaissance Ideal of the Dignity of Man

chapter Chapter Six|21 pages

The High Renaissance in Florence and Rome

chapter Chapter Seven|21 pages

Julius II: Patron of Raphael and Michelangelo

chapter Chapter Eight|22 pages

High Renaissance Painting in Venice