Introduction: Art in Context
PART 1: The Late Thirteenth and the Fourteenth Century
The Origins of the Resistance
Rome: Artists, Popes, and Cardinals
Assisi and Padua: Narrative Realism
Florence: Traditions and Innovations
Siena: City of the Virgin
Naples: Art for a Royal Kingdom
Venice: The Most Serene Republic
Pisa and Florence: Social Upheaval
Visconti Milan and Carrara Padua
PART 2: The Fifteenth Century
Florence: Commune and Guild
Florence: The Medici and Political Propaganda
Rome: Re-establishing Papal Power
Venice: Affirming the Past and Present
Courtly Art: The Gothic and Classic
Sforza Milan: Ducal Splendor
PART 3: The First Half of the Sixteenth Century
Florence: The Renewed Republic
Rome: Julius II, Leo X, and Clement VII
Florence: Mannerism and the Medici
Mantua, Parma, and Genoa: The Arts at Court
Venice: Vision and Monumentality
PART 4: The Latter Sixteenth Century
The Rome of Paul II
Northern Italy: Reform and Innovation
Florence under Cosimo I
Rome: A European Capital City
Art in Renaissance Italy by John T. Paoletti. ISBN 9780205010479. Published by Pearson Prentice Hall in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.