Stephen Campbell and Michael Cole introduce Italian Renaissance art in this easy-to-follow chronological survey. Drawing on the most recent scholarship, their book makes new approaches accessible to students and non-specialist readers, telling the story of art in the great centres of Rome, Florence and Venice while profiling a range of other cities and sites throughout Italy. The book uses a novel decade-by-decade structure, which allows students to follow the chronology easily, as well as enabling collaborative works to be discussed in their entirety, and ensuring that discussion of ‘minor centres’ can be brought in as needed. It presents the classic canon of Renaissance painting and sculpture in full, while expanding the scope of conventional surveys by offering a more thorough coverage of architecture, decorative and domestic arts, and print media. Rather than emphasizing artists’ biographies, this new account concentrates on the works, discussing means of production, the places for which images were made, the concerns of patrons, and the expectations and responses of the works’ first viewers. Renaissance art is seen as decidedly new, a moment in the history of art whose concerns persist in the present. ‘Dazzlingly ambitious and fiercely intelligent, this is very much a book of today, which seems destined to remain the survey of choice for years to come’ – David Ekserdjian, Leicester University ‘A fine and original new introduction to Italian Renaissance art … [it] generates new perspectives on the progress and parameters of an entire visual tradition’ – Tom Nichols, University of Aberdeen

Table of Contents

1. 1300–1400: The Trecento Inheritance • 2. 1400–1410: The Cathedral and the City • 3. 1410–1420:
Commissioning Art: Standardization, Customization, Emulation • 4. 1420–1430: Perspective and the
Historia • 5. 1430–1440: Pictorial Techniques and the Uses of Drawing • 6. 1440–1450: Palace and Church
• 7. 1450–1460: Rome and Other Romes • 8. 1460–1470: Courtly Values • 9. 1470–1480: What is
Naturalism? • 10. 1480–1490: Migration and Mobility • 11. 1490–1500: From the Margins to the Centre •
12. 1500–1510: Human Nature • 13. 1510–1520: The Workshop and ‘The School’ • 14. 1520–1530: The
Loss of the Centre • 15. 1530–1540: Dynasty and Myth • 16. 1540–1550: Literate Art • 17. 1550–1560:
Disegno/Colore • 18. 1560–1570: Decorum, Order and Reform • 19. 1570–1580: Art, the People and the
Counter-Reformation Church • 20: 1580–1590: A Sense of Place • 21. 1590–1600: The Persistence of Art

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Stephen J. Campbell is Henry and Elizabeth Wiesenfeld Professor and Acting Department Chair at Johns Hopkins University. He taught previously at the University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania.

Michael W. Cole has taught at the University of North Carolina, at the University of Pennsylvania, and at Williams College; he is currently Professor and Department Chair of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University.

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