History of Italian Renaissance Art

Part 1 The late Middle Ages: Italy and Italian art; Dugento art in Tuscany and Rome; Florentine art of the early Trecento; Siennese art of the early Trecento; later Gothic art in Tuscany and North Italy. Part 2 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 North Italy. Part 3 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; Michelangelo and the Maniera.