The sculptors of the Italian Renaissance transformed their Classical and regional heritage. From about 1260
to 1600, these masters introduced revolutionary innovations in freestanding figures and portraits, while on reliefs
convincing perspective was rendered for the first time, predating its use in painting. The Renaissance notion of
the artist as genius is vividly embodied in contemporary sculptors, from Nicola Pisano through Brunelleschi and
Donatello to Michelangelo and Giambologna. Roberta Olson surveys the extraordinary artistic achievements of the
period, which were to affect for ever after the practice of Western art.
Table of Contents
1. The First Stage of the Renaissance
2. The Mature Renaissance: Beginning the Second Stage
3. The Spread of the Renaissance
4. Donatello: The Great Innovator
5. Sculpture in Mid-Fifteenth Century Florence
6. Embellishment: Late Quattrocento Florence
7. Renaissance Fever outside Florence, 1450-1500
8. The High Renaissance
9. Michelangelo
10. The Sixteenth Century and the Legacy of Michelangelo
Select Bibliography
Museum Locations and Acknowledgments for Photographs
Index
