Art of Renaissance Florence ― A City and Its Legacy

In this vivid account Scott Nethersole examines the remarkable period of cultural, artistic, and intellectual blossoming in Florence from 1400 to 1520—the period traditionally known as the Early and High Renaissance. He looks at the city and its art with fresh eyes, presenting the well-known within a wider context of cultural reference. Key works of art—from painting, sculpture, and architecture to illuminated manuscripts—by artists such as Michelangelo, Donatello, Botticelli, and Brunelleschi are showcased alongside the unexpected and less familiar.

Scott Nethersole is Senior Lecturer in Italian Renaissance Art, 1400–1500, at The Courtauld Institute of Art in London. He was formerly Harry M. Weinrebe Curatorial Assistant at the National Gallery, London. Fifteenth-century Florence is his particular field of interest and expertise, on which he has published widely. His book Art and Violence in Early Renaissance Florence will be published by Yale University Press in 2018.