1 PRELUDE: ITALY AND ITALIAN ART 17
The Role of Antiquity 18
The Cities 20
The Guilds and the Status of the Artist 24
The Artist at Work 25
The Products of the Painter’s Bottega 26
The Practice of Drawing 27
The Practice of Painting 28
Creating a Tempera Painting 28
Creating a Fresco Painting 30
Creating an Oil Painting 32
The Practice of Sculpture 32
The Practice of Architecture 34
The Practice of History and of Art History 35
The Practice of Art History: Giorgio Vasari 36
Part One
The Late Middle Ages
2 DUECENTO ART IN TUSCANY AND ROME 39
Painting in Pisa 40
Painting in Lucca 43
Painting in Florence 44
Painting in Siena 48
Cimabue 48
Painting in Rome 52
Cavallini 55
Sculpture 57
Architecture 65
3 FLORENTINE ART OF THE EARLY TRECENTO 73
Giotto 73
Florentine Painters after Giotto 96
Sculpture 100
4 SIENESE ART OF THE EARLY TRECENTO 103
Duccio 103
Simone Martini 109
Pietro Lorenzetti 117
Ambrogio Lorenzetti 123
The Master of the Triumph of Death 129
Orvieto Cathedral, Lorenzo Maitani and Ugolino di Vieri 130
5 LATER GOTHIC ART IN TUSCANY AND
NORTHERN ITALY 137
Mid-Trecento Painting in Florence 138
Late Gothic Painting: Agnolo Gaddi and Lorenzo Monaco 144
Painting and Sculpture in Northern Italy 148
Part Two
The Quattrocento
6 THE BEGINNINGS OF RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE 159
The Role of the Medici Family 160
Filippo Brunelleschi and Linear Perspective 161
The Dome of Florence Cathedral 163
The Ospedale degli Innocenti 166
Brunelleschi’s Sacristy for San Lorenzo 167
San Lorenzo and Santo Spirito 168
Santa Maria degli Angeli 171
The Pazzi Chapel 171
The Medici Palace and Michelozzi di Bartolommeo 172
7 GOTHIC AND RENAISSANCE IN TUSCAN SCULPTURE 177
The Competition Panels 177
Ghiberti to 1425 179
Donatello to 1417 185
Nanni di Banco 190
Donatello (c. 1417 to c. 1435) 192
Jacopo della Quercia 196
8 GOTHIC AND RENAISSANCE IN FLORENTINE PAINTING 201
Gentile da Fabriano 201
Masolino and Masaccio 205
9 THE HERITAGE OF MASACCIO AND THE SECOND RENAISSANCE STYLE 221
Fra Angelico 222
Fra Filippo Lippi 229
10 THE SECOND RENAISSANCE STYLE IN ARCHITECTURE
AND SCULPTURE 239
Alberti 239
Ghiberti after 1425 250
Luca della Robbia (1399 or 1400–82) 253
Donatello (c. 1433 to c. 1455) 255
11 ABSOLUTE AND PERFECT PAINTING: THE SECOND RENAISSANCE STYLE 265
Paolo Uccello 265
Domenico Veneziano 269
Andrea del Castagno 273
A Birth Salver Celebrating Lorenzo de’ Medici 280
Piero della Francesca 281
12 CRISIS AND CROSSCURRENTS 299
Donatello after 1453 302
Desiderio da Settignano 305
Antonio Rossellino and the Chapel of the Cardinal of Portugal 308
Benedetto and Giuliano da Maiano 311
Giuliano da Sangallo 314
Benozzo Gozzoli 317
Alesso Baldovinetti 318
Francesco Pesellino 321
13 SCIENCE, POETRY, AND PROSE 325
Antonio del Pollaiuolo 326
Andrea del Verrocchio 332
Renaissance Cassoni 336
Alessandro Botticelli 337
Filippino Lippi 353
Domenico del Ghirlandaio 356
14 THE RENAISSANCE IN CENTRAL ITALY 365
Siena 365
Sassetta 367
Giovanni di Paolo 368
Domenico di Bartolo 369
Matteo di Giovanni 371
Vecchietta 372
Francesco di Giorgio 372
Perugia 375
Perugino 375
Pintoricchio 379
Melozzo da Forlì 381
The Laurana Brothers 385
15 GOTHIC AND RENAISSANCE IN VENICE AND
NORTHERN ITALY 391
Pisanello 391
Early Quattrocento Painting in Venice 395
Jacopo Bellini 396
Andrea Mantegna 398
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