Laurie Schneider Adams teaches undergraduate and graduate students at John Jay College, CUNY and the Graduate Center. She has previously taught at Sarah Lawrence College, University of Florida, Columbia University, and Mount Holyoke College. She is the author of Art Across Time, The Methodologies of Art, A History of Western Art, Art and Psychoanalysis, Art on Trial, and editor of Giotto in Perspective. She is the editor or the quarterly journal Source: Notes in the History of Art.

• Preface -- Introduction Fourteenth-Century Precursors -- Key Monuments of Fourteenth-Century Painting -- The Florentine Renaissance: 1400–1440s -- The Middle Decades of the Quattrocento -- The Renaissance Ideal of the Dignity of Man -- Leonardo, Botticelli, and Crosscurrents in Fifteenth-Century Florence -- The High Renaissance in Florence and Rome -- Julius II: Patron of Raphael and Michelangelo -- High Renaissance Painting in Venice

Laurie Schneider Adams teaches undergraduate and graduate students at John Jay College, CUNY and the Graduate Center. She has previously taught at Sarah Lawrence College, University of Florida, Columbia University, and Mount Holyoke College. She is the author of Art Across Time, The Methodologies of Art, A History of Western Art, Art and Psychoanalysis, Art on Trial, and editor of Giotto in Perspective. She is the editor or the quarterly journal Source: Notes in the History of Art.

• Preface -- Introduction Fourteenth-Century Precursors -- Key Monuments of Fourteenth-Century Painting -- The Florentine Renaissance: 1400–1440s -- The Middle Decades of the Quattrocento -- The Renaissance Ideal of the Dignity of Man -- Leonardo, Botticelli, and Crosscurrents in Fifteenth-Century Florence -- The High Renaissance in Florence and Rome -- Julius II: Patron of Raphael and Michelangelo -- High Renaissance Painting in Venice