Preface -- Part 1. Precursors of the Renaissance. 1. The thirteenth century. The context ; The stylistic background ; Vasari's Lives and the "framing" of the Renaissance ; Cimabue ; Saints Dominic and Francis : Mendicant Friars ; Nicola and Giovanni Pisano ; Duccio di Buoninsegna : the Rucellai Madonna ; Siena and Florence in 1300 ; Giotto : the Santa Maria Novella Crucifix -- 2. Trecento precursors. Giotto di Bondone ; Sienese painting in the fourteenth century ; Ambrogio Lorenzetti : Allegories of good and bad government ; 1348 : the Black Death ; Andrea da Firenze : Way of salvation ; Andrea di Clone (Orcagna) --
Part 2. The quattrocento. 3. Architecture and sculpture in Florence : 1400-1430. The competition of 1401 ; Ghiberti's Commentarii ; Public sculpture : the exterior of Florence Cathedral ; Donatello's John the Evangelist ; The architecture of the Brunelleschi ; Late work : Santa Maria degli Angeli and the ideal of the circular plan ; Or San Michele : the exterior niches -- 4. Painting in Florence : 1400-1430. Lorenzo Monaco's Coronation of the Virgin ; Gentile da Fabriano's Adoration of the Magi : 1423 ; Masaccio ; The Brancacci Chapel frescoes -- 5. Painting in Florence : 1430-1460. Leon Battista Alberti : On painting ; Fra Angelico ; Filippo Lippi -- 6. Painting in Florence, II : 1430-1460. Paolo Uccello ; Domenico Veneziano ; Andrea del Castagno -- 7. Sculpture and architecture in Florence : 1430s-1460s. Bruni's humanist tomb ; Alberti's self-portrait plaque : an iconographic puzzle ; Donatello in the mid-fifteenth century ; Ghiberti's east doors ; Palace architecture ; The façade of Santa Maria Novella -- 8. Developments in Siena, Rimini, and Pienza : 1400-1460. Siena ; Rimini ; Pienza -- 9. Developments in Umbria, the Marches, and Naples : 1400s-1460s. Alfonso I of Naples ; Piero della Francesca ; The Montefeltro Court in Urbino Federico's dynastic iconography -- 10. Sculpture and architecture in Florence after 1450. Sculpture ; Architecture -- 11. Painting in Florence after 1450. Benozzo Gozzoli : the Medici Chapel frescoes ; Pollaiuolo ; Botticelli ; Filippino Lippi : Vision of Saint Bernard ; Ghirlandaio -- 12. Fifteenth-century developments in Verona, Ferrara, and Mantua. Pisanello in Verona ; Pisanello and the Este of Ferrara ; Developments in Mantua ; Andrea Mantegna ; Mantegna and the Gonzaga of Mantua -- 13. Developments in late fifteenth-and early sixteenth-century Venice. Jacopo Bellini ; Gentile Bellini ; Carpaccio's Miracles at the Rialto ; Antonello da Messina ; Giovanni Bellini --
Part 3. The cinquecento. 14. Leonardo and Bramante : late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century developments in Florence and Milan. Leonardo da Vinci : Florence ; Leonardo and Bramante in Milan ; Leonardo's later work
15. Michelangelo and Raphael : the late fifteenth century to 1505. Michelangelo : Florence and Rome ; Raphael : Urbino, Perugia, and Florence
16. Bramante, Michelangelo, Raphael : developments in Rome to 1520. Bramante in Rome ; The patronage of Julius II ; Raphael after 1511 ; Domestic architecture
17. Venice in the sixteenth century. Giorgione da Castelfranco ; Titian ; Later sixteenth century developments and mannerist trends
18. Michelangelo after 1520 and the transition to mannerism. Michelangelo : the Medici Chapel ; Victory ; Last judgment ; Michelangelo's later architecture ; Toward mannerism - Timeline - Glossary of art-historical and stylistic terms.
