Long hailed as one of the most comprehensive and richly detailed chronologies of painting, sculpture, and architecture
in Italy from c. 1200 A.D. to c. 1594 A. D., this volume focuses on the works of art, their creators, and the circumstances
affecting their creation.
Features
Surveys the major schools of Italian art over the three key Renaissance centuries exploring artists and events,
and presenting multiple scholarly opinions and points of view.
Discusses the revolutionary figures and major movements of the period the masters as well as scores of minor
artists.
Shows the close interrelationship between painting, sculpture, and architecture in the Early Renaissance.
Explores Renaissance philosophical, scientific, religious, political, and metaphysical ideas in relation to
works of art and architecture.
Re-examines and re-illustrates restored and cleaned works of art and architecture in light of new discoveries.
Features illustrations that emphasize physical surroundings of works of art, including paintings' frames and
architectural settings.
Expands captions to include:
Patron's names.
Icon signifying that a work has been painted for that site.
Original locations, when known, of works now in museums or private collections.
Features a sensitive edit of the most complex and florid passages to convey Professor Hartt's meaning and connoisseurship
while insuring greater clarity.
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THE LATE MIDDLE AGES
Italy and Italian Art.
Duecento Art in Tuscany and Rome.
Florentine Art of the Early Trecento.
Sienese Art of the Early Trecento.
Later Gothic Art in Tuscany and Northern Italy.
CHAPTER II. THE QUATTROCENTO
The Beginnings of Renaissance Architecture.
Gothic and Renaissance in Tuscan Sculpture.
Gothic and Renaissance in Florentine Painting.
The Heritage of Masaccio and the Second Renaissance Style.
The Second Renaissance Style in Architecture and Sculpture.
Absolute and Perfect Painting: The Second Renaissance Style.
Crisis and Crosscurrents.
Science, Poetry, and Prose.
The Renaissance in Central Italy.
Gothic and Renaissance in Venice and Northern Italy.
CHAPTER III. THE CINQUECENTO
The High Renaissance in Florence.
The High Renaissance in Rome.
High Renaissance and Mannerism.
High and Late Renaissance in Venice and on the Mainland.
