The Renaissance conception of artistic progress and its consequences
Apollonio di Giovanni: a Florentine cassone workshop seen through the eyes of a humanist poet
Renaissance and golden age
The early Medici as patrons of art
Leonardo's method for working out compositions
Raphael's Madonna della Sedia
Norm and form: the stylistic categories of art history and their origins in Renaissance ideals
Mannerism: the historiographic background
The Renaissance theory of art and the rise of landscape
The style all'antica: imitation and assimilation
Reynolds's theory and practice of imitation.
