The book includes genealogies of influential families,listings of popes and doges, plans of cities, a time chart, a bibliography, a glossary, and an index.Innovative and scholarly, yet accessible and beautifully presented, this book is set to become a definitive work on the Italian Renaissance.

Art in Renaissance Italy, Third Edition, has a fresliness and breadth of approach that sets the art in its context.exploring why it was created and who commissioned the palaces, cathedrals, paintings, and sculptures. For. as the authors claim. Italian Renaissance artists were no more solitary gemuses than are most architects and commercial artists today.

This book covers not only the foremost artistic centres of Rome and Florence. Here too are Venice and the Veneto,Assisi, Siena, Milan, Pavia. Genoa, Padua. Mantua, Verona.Ferrara. Urbino. and Naples-each city revealing unique political and social structures that influenced its artistic styles.

The narrative brings to life the rich tapestry of Renaissance society from 1250 to 1600. "Contemporary Scene" boxes provide fascinating glimpses of daily life and "Contemporary Voice" boxes quote from painters and writers of the time.  In this Third Edition chapters are grouped into four chronological parts, allowing for a sustained examination of individual cities in different periods. There are also sixtyfour more pages than before, including 100 extra pictures,mostly in colour; more detailed treatment of key artworks;greater coverage of complex topics such as Mannerism;further analysis of the responses to religious reform: and a discussion of art restoration versus art renovation.

A brilliant selection of familiar and unfamiliar artworks presents the visual arts as an integrated whole. Frescoes are shown in situ and close up, sculpturesare displayed in their architectural setting, and examples of other arts such as intarsia and prints are included.

The book includes genealogies of influential families,listings of popes and doges, plans of cities, a time chart, a bibliography, a glossary, and an index.  Innovative and scholarly, yet accessible and beautifully presented, this book is set to become a definitive work on the Italian Renaissance.

Preface 10

Introduction: Art in Context 12

Contemporary Scene: Art and Offerings 15

Patronage 16

Artists’ Workshops 17

  The Image of the Artist 17

Workshop Training 18

Contracts 21

Contemporary Voice: An Artist’s Life 21

Materials and Methods 22

The Painting Studio 23

  Wall Painting 23

Contemporary Voice: Terms of Employment 24

  Tempera and Oil Painting 26

  Mosaic and Stained Glass 27

  The Sculpture Workshop 28

  Bronze Sculpture 31

Drawings 32

  Architecture 33

Other Workshops 36

Print Media 36

Renovations and Restorations 37

Historiography and Methodology 42

  Vasari’s ThreeAges 42

Contemporary Voice: Fashioning the Female Artist 43

Naming the Renaissance 44

The Late Thirteenth and the

Fourteenth Century 47

1 The Origins of the Renaissance 48

St. Francis and the Beginnings of Renaissance Art 48

Francis of Assisi 49

Contemporary Voice: Francis as Another Christ 50

  The San Damiano Crucifix: Christus triumphans 50

Christus patiens 50

Defining St. Francis 52

St. Clare 53

  Style and Meaning 53

Urban Contexts 55

  Types of Cities 55

2 Rome: Artists, Popes, and Cardinals 56

Rome’s Revival under Nicholas III 57

  The Sancta Sanctorum 59

Contemporary Scene: Art and Miracles 60

Nicholas IV at Santa Maria Maggiore 61

Patrons Dora the Papal Curia 62

Pope Boniface VIII and an imperial Language

  of Power 64

Creating Images for an Absent Papacy 65

3 Assisi and Padua: Narrative Realism 67

Frescoes in San Francesco 69

Nave Frescoes 69

Contemporary Voice: St. Francis and the Christ Child 70

Padua: The Scrovegni Chapel 71

4 Florence: Traditions and Innovations 77

St. John the Baptist and the Baptistry 79

The Palazzo della Signoria and Urban Planning 80

Contemporary Scene: Art and Violence 82

Mendicant Churches 82

Santa Croce and Santa Maria Novella 82

Altarpieces Dedicated to the Virgin 84

  Cimabue’s Altarpiece for Santa Trinitr 84

  Duccio’s Altarpiece for the Confraternity

    of the Laudesi 85

  Giotto’s Ognissanti Madonna 86

Santa Croce Frescoes 86

  The Bardi Chapel 87

  The Peruzzi Chapel 88

  The Baroncelli Chapel 90

Altarpieces for Santa Croce 92

The Santa Croce Refectory Frescoes 93

The Cathedral Complex 94

Andrea Pisano’s Baptistry Doors 96

5 Siena: City of the Virgin 99

The Cathedral 100

The Pulpit 101

The Facade 103

Duccio’s Maesta 104

Contemporary Voice: The Procession of the Maestri 104

Altarpieces in the Transept Chapels 107

Later Sienese Altar Painting 110

  Tomb Sculpture 110

  Arezzo: The Tarlati Tomb 112

The Palazzo Pubblico 112

Simone Martini’s Maesta for the Palazzo Pubblico 113

  Lippo Memmi’s Maesta for San Gimignano 113

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