Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-297) and index.
Contents
The historical background to the Renaissance -- Painting and drawing techniques in the Renaissance -- The rebirth of painting in Italy and the prelude to the Renaissance 12-50-1400 -- Fifteenth-Century Italian painting -- Fifteenth-Century painting in the Netherlands -- The Renaissance elsewhere in Europe -- The high Renaissance in Italy -- The later Renaissance and Mannerism in Italy -- Painting in Germany and the Netherlands in the Sixteenth Century -- The end of Mannerism and the dawn fo the Baroque.