Precursors of the Renaissance The Thirteenth Century p. 2 The Context p. 2 Politics p. 2 Box: Guelphs and Ghibellines p. 4 The Guilds p.

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1 Preface p. xi Precursors of the Renaissance The Thirteenth Century p. 2 The Context p. 2 Politics p. 2 Box: Guelphs and Ghibellines p. 4 The Guilds p. 4 The Stylistic Background p. 4 Box: Early Christianity and the Life of Christ p. 6 Vasari's Lives and the "Framing" of the Renaissance p. 9 Cimabue p. 9 Box: Tempera Painting and the Bottega p. 11 Saints Dominic and Francis: Mendicant Friars p. 13 Box: Typology p. 13 Nicola and Giovanni Pisano p. 14 Duccio di Buoninsegna: The Rucellai Madonna p. 18 Siena and Florence in 1300 p. 21 Box: Dante Alighieri p. 22 Giotto: The Santa Maria Novella Crucifix p. 23 Trecento Precursors p. 25 Giotto di Bondone p. 25 The Ognissanti Madonna p. 25 Box: Giovanni Boccaccio p. 25 Box: Fresco Painting p. 27 The Arena Chapel p. 28 Box: The Emergence of Humanism p. 28 Controversy Box: Giotto and the Assisi Frescoes p. 39 Sienese Painting in the Fourteenth Century p. 40 Duccio's Maesta p. 40 Simone Martini p. 43 Ambrogio Lorenzetti: Allegories of Good and Bad Government p : The Black Death p. 50 Controversy Box: The Impact of the Black Death p. 50 Andrea da Firenze: Way of Salvation p. 51 Andrea di Cione (Orcagna) p. 53 The Strozzi Altarpiece p. 53 The Or San Michele Tabernacle p. 54 The Quattrocento Architecture and Sculpture in Florence: p. 58 Box: The Catasto of 1427 p. 59 The Competition of 1401 p. 60

2 Box: Bronze Casting p. 62 Ghiberti's Commentarii p. 64 Public Sculpture: The Exterior of Florence Cathedral p. 64 Donatello's Marble David p. 65 Donatello's John the Evangelist p. 65 The Architecture of Brunelleschi p. 66 The Dome p. 66 The Hospital of the Innocents p. 68 Box: The Medici in the Fifteenth Century p. 70 The Church of San Lorenzo p. 70 Box: The Orders of Architecture p. 71 The Church of Santo Spirito p. 72 Late Work: Santa Maria degli Angeli and the Ideal of the Circular Plan p. 74 Controversy Box: Brunelleschi's Sources p. 75 Or San Michele: The Exterior Niches p. 75 Painting in Florence: p. 83 Lorenzo Monaco's Coronation of the Virgin p. 83 Gentile da Fabriano's Adoration of the Magi: 1423 p. 85 Masaccio p. 87 The Pisa Altarpiece: The Virgin and Child p. 87 Box: Brunelleschi's Perspective System p. 89 The Trinity p. 90 The Brancacci Chapel Frescoes p. 92 The Disposition of the Scenes p. 92 Temptation and Expulsion of Adam and Eve p. 96 The Tribute Money p. 98 Controversy Box: The Restoration of the Brancacci Chapel Frescoes p. 99 The Frescoes on the Altar Wall p. 100 Painting in Florence: p. 104 Box: Women in the Italian Renaissance p. 104 Leon Battista Alberti: On Painting p. 105 Fra Angelico p. 106 Filippo Lippi p. 115 Box: Pius II p. 115 Box: Jan van Eyck and the Renaissance in the Netherlands p. 120 Painting in Florence, II: p. 122 Paolo Uccello p. 122 Box: Condottieri p. 125 Box: The Dignity of Man in the Renaissance p. 129 Domenico Veneziano p. 131 Andrea del Castagno p. 134

3 Sculpture and Architecture in Florence: 1430s-1460s p. 142 Bruni's Humanist Tomb p. 142 Alberti's Self-Portrait Plaque: An Iconographic Puzzle p. 144 Box: The Renaissance Medal p. 145 Donatello in the Mid-Fifteenth Century p. 146 Ghiberti's East Doors p. 151 Box: Pisanello's Medal of John VIII Palaeologus p. 153 Palace Architecture p. 154 The Medici Palace: p. 154 The Rucellai Palace: 1450s p. 157 Box: Alberti's Architectural Metaphor p. 158 The Facade of Santa Maria Novella p. 159 Developments in Siena, Rimini, and Pienza: p. 161 Siena p. 161 Sassetta p. 161 Box: San Bernardino of Siena p. 164 Jacopo della Quercia p. 164 The Ilaria del Carretto Tomb Monument p. 164 The Fonte Gaia p. 165 The Baptismal Font p. 166 The San Petronio Portal p. 169 Rimini p. 171 The Tempio Malatestiano p. 171 Medals of Sigismondo and Isotta p. 175 Pienza p. 177 Developments in Umbria, the Marches, and Naples: 1400s-1460s p. 179 Box: Vitruvius p. 179 Alfonso I of Naples p. 180 Pisanello's Medal of Alfonso p. 180 The Aragonese Arch p. 181 Piero della Francesca p. 184 The Baptism of Christ p. 184 The Madonna del Parto p. 186 Box: The Cartoon p. 187 The Arezzo Frescoes p. 187 Box: The Legend of the True Cross p. 190 The Montefeltro Court in Urbino p. 192 Clemente's Medal of Federico da Montefeltro p. 194 Piero's State Portraits p. 196 The Flagellation of Christ p. 198 The Madonna and Child with Saints p. 199

4 Controversy Box: The Question of the Egg p. 199 Federico's Dynastic Iconography p. 201 Sculpture and Architecture in Florence after 1450 p. 202 Sculpture p. 202 Donatello p. 202 Mary Magdalen p. 202 The Bronze John the Baptist p. 203 Judith and Holofernes p. 203 Desiderio da Settignano p. 206 Antonio del Pollaiuolo's Hercules and Antaeus p. 208 Andrea del Verrocchio p. 209 David p. 209 Doubting Thomas p. 209 The Tomb of Piero and Giovanni de' Medici p. 211 Putto with a Dolphin p. 213 Colleoni p. 215 Architecture p. 215 The Strozzi Palace p. 216 Giuliano da Sangallo p. 217 The Medici Villa: Poggio a Caiano p. 218 Santa Maria delle Carceri p. 219 Painting in Florence after 1450 p. 222 Benozzo Gozzoli: The Medici Chapel Frescoes p. 222 Pollaiuolo p. 226 Botticelli p. 229 Box: The Platonic Academy p. 233 Filippino Lippi: Vision of Saint Bernard p. 238 Ghirlandaio p. 240 Fifteenth-Century Developments in Verona, Ferrara, and Mantua p. 246 Pisanello in Verona p. 246 Pisanello and the Este of Ferrara p. 248 Box: The Este of Ferrara p. 250 Developments in Mantua p. 254 The Sala Pisanello Frescoes p. 254 Box: The Gonzaga of Mantua p. 255 Alberti in Mantua p. 256 Andrea Mantegna p. 260 Mantegna and the Gonzaga of Mantua p. 262 Developments in Late Fifteenth-and Early Sixteenth-Century Venice p. 270 Jacopo Bellini p. 272 Box: The Venetian Scuole p. 272

5 Gentile Bellini p. 275 Carpaccio's Miracle at the Rialto p. 276 Antonello da Messina p. 278 Giovanni Bellini p. 280 Box: Ovid and the Renaissance p. 289 The Cinquecento Leonardo and Bramante: Late Fifteenth-and Early Sixteenth-Century Developments in Florence and Milan p. 292 Leonardo da Vinci: Florence p. 292 Leonardo and Bramante in Milan p. 298 Politics and Humanist Patronage p. 298 Lodovico and Bramante p. 300 Lodovico and Leonardo p. 304 Leonardo's Later Work p. 307 Controversy Box: Freud, Leonardo, and Art History: A Methodological Squabble p. 311 Michelangelo and Raphael: The Late Fifteenth Century to 1505 p. 312 Michelangelo: Florence and Rome p. 312 Controversy Box: Michelangelo and the "Marble Breast" p. 317 Raphael: Urbino, Perugia, and Florence p. 321 Box: Literary Figures at the Court of Guidobaldo da Montefeltro p. 321 Brammante, Michelangelo, Raphael: Developments in Rome to 1520 p. 330 Bramante in Rome p. 330 The Patronage of Julius II p. 332 Box: The Evolution of Saint Peter's p. 334 Michelangelo: The Tomb of Julius II p. 334 The Sistine Ceiling p. 336 Raphael: The Stanza della Segnatura p. 344 Disputation over the Sacrament (or Disputa) p. 345 School of Athens p. 346 Raphael After 1511 p. 348 Galatea p. 348 Fire in the Borgo p. 349 Pope Leo X with Cardinals Giulio de' Medici and Luigi de' Rossi p. 350 Transfiguration p. 351 Domestic Architecture p. 353 The Villa Madama p. 353 The Farnese Palace p. 355 Venice in the Sixteenth Century p. 357 Giorgione da Castelfranco p. 358 Enthroned Madonna with Saints Liberalis and Francis p. 358 Tempest p. 361 Fete Champetre p. 362

6 Sleeping Venus p. 363 Portrait of an Old Woman (Col Tempo) p. 363 Titian p. 364 Sacred and Profane Love p. 364 Assumption of the Virgin p. 365 The Pesaro Altarpiece p. 365 Meeting of Bacchus and Ariadne p. 368 Venus of Urbino p. 369 Danae p. 370 Pope Paul III p. 371 Pieta p. 372 Later Sixteenth-Century Developments and Mannerist Trends p. 374 Tintoretto: Last Supper p. 374 Veronese: Apotheosis of Venice p. 374 Palladio: Developments in Architecture p. 377 Michelangelo after 1520 and the Transition to Mannerism p. 379 Box: Machiavelli p. 379 Michelangelo: The Medici Chapel p. 380 Victory p. 384 Last Judgment p. 386 Michelangelo's Later Architecture p. 388 The Vestibule of the Laurentian Library p. 388 The Campidoglio p. 390 Towards Mannerism p. 392 Correggio and Parmigianino p. 392 Giulio Romano p. 394 Pontormo p. 396 Florence under Cosimo I de' Medici p. 397 Timeline p. 400 Glossary of Art-Historical and Stylistic Terms p. 404 Select Bibliography p. 408 Notes p. 413 Picture Credits p. 413 Index p. 415 Table of Contents provided by Blackwell's Book Services and R.R. Bowker. Used with permission.