Contents

Preface and acknowledgements

Illustrations

Introduction

Map

1 Realism and religion: early Renaissance art in Flanders

2 Christianity and classicism: early Renaissance art in Florence

3 Art and nature: central Italy around 1500

4 Another Renaissance: Venice and the north

5 Renaissance and reformation: northern art of the sixteenth century

6 Between court and reform: Italian Renaissance art after 1520

Conclusion: Renaissance art, medieval and modern

Glossary of terms

List of artists and works

Further reading

Bibliography

Index