Table of Contents: “…Radke -- Painting in Masaccio's Florence / Ellen Callmann -- Collaboration in early renaissance art: the case of Masaccio and Masolino / Perri Lee Roberts -- Masaccio: technique in context / Roberto Bellucci and Cecilia Frosinini -- The altarpieces of Masaccio / Dillian Gordon -- Masaccio in the Brancacci Chapel / Diane Cole Ahl -- Masaccio's Trinity: theological, social, and civic meanings / Timothy Verdon -- Masaccio and perspective in Italy in the fifteenth century / J.V. …”
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Table of Contents: “…--The Sienese State in the Renaissance, by D. L. Hicks.--The early Renaissance in England, by D. Hay.--Gunpowder and the Renaissance, by J. …”

Table of Contents: “…Saxonhouse -- Rule by natural reason: late medieval and early Renaissance conceptions of political corruption / Manuhuia Barcham -- Changing contours of corruption in Western political thought, c. 1200-1700 / Bruce Buchan -- Ideas of corruption in the eighteenth century: the competing conceptions of Adam Ferguson and Adam Smith / Lisa Hill -- Corruption, development, chaos and social disorganisation: sociological reflections on corruption and its social basis / John Clammer -- Professionalising corruption? …”
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Table of Contents: “…Part I: The roots of Italian urban form -- Rome: The centre of the city as axis mundi -- Christianity: The development of new urban forms -- The Middle Ages: from the city of God to the city of man -- Part II: The early modern city -- Early Renaissance: Perspective, representation and the ideal -- High Renaissance: The modern city all'antica -- Mannerism: The theatre of the city -- Baroque: Scale, form and meaning -- Part III: The city and national consciousness -- Neo-Classicism: Style and political ideology -- Risorgimento: The formation of a national urban space -- Fascism: The urban language of authoritarianism -- Part IV: Urban expression in an age of uncertainty -- Neo-Realism: Urban form and la dolce vita -- Neo-Rationalism: Aldo Rossi and the rediscovery of typology -- Labyrinths: The city of 'the years of lead' -- The piazza and the politics of the present.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Prehistory and prehistoric art in Europe -- Art of the ancient near east -- Art of ancient Egypt -- Aegean art -- Art of ancient Greece -- Etruscan art and Roman art -- Early Christian, Jewish, and Byzantine art -- Islamic art -- Art of India before 1100 -- Chinese art before 1280 -- Japanese art before 1392 -- Art of the Americas before 1300 -- Art of ancient Africa -- Early medieval art in Europe -- Rmanesque art -- Gothic art -- Early renaissance art in Europe -- Renaissance art in sixteenth-century Europe -- Baroque, Rococo, and early American art -- Art of India after 1100 -- Chinese art after 1280 -- Japanese art after 1392 -- Art of the Americas after 1300 -- Art of Pacific cultures -- Art of Africa in the modern era -- Neoclassicism and Romanticism in Europe and the United States -- Realism in impressionism in Europe and the United States -- The rise of modernism in Europe and the United States -- Art in the United States and Europe since World War II.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Najemy -- Li emergenti bisogni matrimoniali in Renaissance Florence / Julius Kirshner - Michele del Giogante's house of memory / Dale Kent -- Inheritance and identity in early Renaissance Florence: the estate of Paliano di Falco / Thomas Kuehn -- Perceived insults and their consequences: Acciaiuoli, Neroni, and Medici relationships in the 1460's / Margery A. …”

Table of Contents: “…The Early Middle Ages -- Romanesque Art -- Gothic art -- Precursors of the Renaissance -- 4. The early Renaissance -- The High Renaissance in Italy -- Mannerism and the later Sixteenth Century in Italy -- Sixteenth-Century painting in northern Europe -- 5. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Campbell -- Nudity and Christian art -- The nude and Christian art / Thomas Kren -- The expansion of secular themes -- From Venus to witches: the female nude in Northern Europe / Diane Wolfthal -- Painting Venus in the poetic tradition of the Early Renaissance / C. Jean Campbell -- Naked truth: humanism, poetry, and the nude in Renaissance art, 1400-1530 / Stephen J. …”

Table of Contents: “…-- Late Medieval Italy -- Late Medieval and early Renaissance northern Europe -- The Renaissance in Quattrocento Italy -- Renaissance and Mannerism in Cinquecento Italy -- High Renaissance and Mannerism in northern Europe and Spain -- The Baroque in Italy and Spain -- The Baroque in northern Europe -- Rococo to Neoclassicism: the 18th century in Europe and America -- Romanticism, Realism, photography: Europe and America, 1800 to 1870 -- Impressionism, Post-impressionism, Symbolism: Europe and America, 1870 to 1900 -- Moderism in Europe and America, 1900 to 1945 -- Modernism and Postmodernism in Europe and America, 1945 to 1980 -- Contemporary art worldwide.…”
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Table of Contents: “…: the use of drawings in a group of fifteenth-century French Books of Hours / Susie Nash -- Training and practice in the early Renaissance workshop: observations on Benozzo Gozzoli's Rotterdam sketchbook / Francis Ames-Lewis -- Maso Finiguerra and early Florentine printmaking / Lucy Whitaker -- Mantegna and Pollaiuolo: artistic personality and the marketing of invention / Alison Wright -- Luca Signorelli's studies of the human figure / Claire Van Cleave --The 'Deutsch' and the 'Welsch': Jörg Breu the Elder's sketch for the Story of Lucretia and the uses of classicism in sixteenth-century Germany / Andrew Morrall -- Vasari, prints and imitation / Sharon Gregory -- Invenzione, disegno e fatica: two drawings by Giovambattista Naldini for an altarpiece in post-Tridentine Florence / Stuart Currie -- Drawings for Bartolomeo Passarotti's Book of anatomy / Monique Kornell -- Antonio Tempesta as printmaker: invention, drawing and technique / Michael Bury -- Early modern collecting in Northern Europe: copied drawings and printed prototypes / Tarnya Cooper.…”

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