Includes bibliographical references (pages 700-714) and index.
Italy and Italian art -- The late Middle Ages -- 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 -- The quattrocento -- The Renaissance begins : architecture -- Transitions in Tuscan sculpture -- Transitions in Florentine painting -- The heritage of Masaccio : Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi -- Florentine architecture and sculpture : c. 1430-1455 -- Florentine painting at mid-century -- Art in Florence under the Medici I -- Art in Florence under the Medici II -- The Renaissance in central Italy -- Gothic and Renaissance in Venice and northern Italy -- The cinquecento -- The origins of the high Renaissance --The high Renaissance in Rome -- New developments, c. 1520-50 -- High and late Renaissance in Venice and on the mainland -- The late sixteenth century