While the number of specific books and monographs on a given Italian artist or school has increased, no overall study has been carried out for over forty years on the arts in Italy! This book is the only recent general history on the Italian arts, written by a young international team which develops a coherent and continuous history of an art which draws its roots from antiquity and the so-called barbarian invasions, to give birth to the world. modern western. From the 4th century to the Renaissance, the first volume covers more than ten centuries, until the peak of Italian painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, with Raphael or Titian. How to understand this moment of incomparable brilliance that is the Italian Renaissance, without knowing the centuries which preceded it, since the fall of the Roman Empire? Throughout the High Middle Ages, traversing the peninsula, from Milan to Rome, from Ravenna to Palermo, this book traces the seizure of power by the religious or civil communities which rebuild on the ruins of the Empire of the cities, giving birth to the principalities, duchies or republics. The reader will find the big names of Giotto, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Donatello or Giorgione, but also less known artists, The profoundly renewed editorial concept of this volume of the Art and Great Civilizations collection, as well as the considerable increase in color illustrations, further increases the quality of this book, which intimately mixes text and images. Local area delivery is available for this item, please inquire about cost.