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Contents
- 1. Introduction: whose Renaissance? whose art?
- 2. The art of the altarpiece
- 3. Story-telling in Renaissance art
- 4. The challenge of nature and the antique
- 5. Portraiture and the rise of ‘Renaissance man’
- 6. Did women have a Renaissance?
- 7. Objects and images for the domestic sphere
- 8. The story of a square: art and urbanism in Florence
- 9. Michelangelo: the birth of the artist and of art history
