"Hand-painted illumination enlivened the burgeoning culture of the book in the Italian Renaissance, spanning the momentous shift from manuscript production to p

Zuffi reveals the world of the Renaissance masters in a new and rich light. Each spread uses an important painting as a way to explain a key concept. Includes b

Even many Renaissance specialists believe that little secular painting survives before the late fifteenth century, and its appearance becomes a further argument

"This knowledgeable, useful and up-to-date survey of one of the greatest periods in Western painting, from Masaccio through Titian, covers some fifty artists an

"Many famous artworks of the Italian Renaissance were made to celebrate love, marriage, and family. They were the pinnacles of a tradition, dating from early in