Stephen J. Campbell is Henry and Elizabeth Wiesenfeld Professor at Johns Hopkins University. He taught previously at the University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania.

Michael W. Cole has taught at the University of North Carolina, at the University of Pennsylvania, and at Williams College; he is currently Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University.

Drawing on the most recent scholarship, this book makes new approaches accessible to students and non-specialist readers, telling the story of art in the great centres of Rome, Florence and Venice while profiling a range of other cities and sites throughout Italy.

A New History of Italian Renaissance Art presents the classic canon of Renaissance painting and sculpture in full, while expanding the scope of conventional surveys by offering a more thorough coverage of architecture, decorative and domestic arts, and print media.

Rather than emphasizing artists’ biographies, this new account concentrates on the works, discussing the means of production; the places for which images were made; the concerns of patrons; and the expectations and responses of the works’ first viewers.

Renaissance art is seen as decidedly new, a moment in the history of art whose concerns still persist.