Preface Chapter Ten The Fifteenth Century in Europe 416 Timechart 416 The Beginnings of the Italian Renaissance 417 Map Renaissance Italy 418 Brunelleschi 418 Masaccio 420 Progress in Sculpture 421 A New Style in Flanders 424 Van Eyck and van der Weyden 424 In Context The Ghent Altarpiece: Jan van Eyck and his Patrons 426 Sources and Documents Bartolommeo Fazio on Jan van Eyck 430 Architecture in Italy 430 Alberti 431 Sculpture in Italy 433 Donatello 433 New Departures 434 Italian Painting and the Church 438 Fra Angelico, Uccello and Piero della Francesca 439 Sources and Documents Filippino Lippi and Filippo Strozzi: Financial and other Problems over the Strozzi Chapel 441 Secular Painting 443 Botticelli 445 The Venetian Synthesis 449 Mantegna and Bellini 449 International Humanism 453 Durer 453 In Context Bellini and Carpaccio: Corporate Patronage in Renaissance Venice 454 Chapter Eleven The Sixteenth Century in Europe 457 Timechart 457 Reform and Early Sixteenth-century Art in the North 458 Hieronymus Bosch 460 Grunewald 461 Protestant Art 463 The High Renaissance in Italy 466 Leonardo da Vinci 466 Harmony, Unity and Raphael 469 In Context Bramantes Tempietto: Alberti, Leonardo and the Ideal Renaissance Church 472 Michelangelo 474 Sources and Documents Michelangelos David: Contract and Installation 475 The Venetian High Renaissance 485 Urban Development Renaissance Urbanism: The Rome of Sixtus V 486 Giorgione 488 Titian 489 Tintoretto and Veronese 492 Sansovino, Palladio and the Laws of Harmony 493 Sources and Documents Veroneses Interrogation by the Inquisition 494 Mannerism and Mannerisms 497 Correggio and Mannerist Licence 497 Pieter Bruegel the Elder 502 El Greco 503 In Context Pieter Bruegels Months: Patronage in Flanders 504 Chapter Twelve The Americas, Africa and Asia 507 Timechart 507 Mesoamerica and Peru 508 Map Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica 509 The Maya, Toltecs and Mixtecs 510 The Incas 516 The Aztecs 517 Sources and Documents Cortes and Durer on Mexico and Montezumas Treasure 517 Africa 519 Map Africa 519 Sources and Documents Dapper on Benin 523 The Islamic World 524 Ottoman Architecture 528 Safavid Art and Architecture 529 Urban Development Isfahan and Samarkand: Islamic Urban Design 534 Mughal Art and Architecture 536 In Context Nur-Jahan and Jahangir: Art at the Mughal Court 540 Sources and Documents Domingo Paes on Vijayanagar 544 China 545 The Yuan Dynasty 545 The Ming Dynasty 549 Sources and Documents Dong Quichang on Painting: The Study of Nature and Old Masters 555 Japan Kamakura to Edo 556 Map Japan 557 The Influence of Zen Buddhism 558 In Context Namban Screens: The Japanese Encounter with Europeans 562 Chapter Thirteen The Seventeenth Century in Europe 567 Timechart 567 New Beginnings in Rome 568 concepts Nature, Imitation and Invention: The Formation of Academic Theory 570 Baroque Art and Architecture 571 Rubens and van Dyck 572 In Context The Jesuit Missions: Evangelization and Colonization 576 The Easel Painting in Italy 578 Bernini 580 Borromini 583 Poussin and Claude 585 Velisquez 588 Sources and Documents Pacheco on Art in the Service of Religion 590 Dutch Painting 591 Hals 591 Rembrandt 592 Landscape 595 In Context Rembrandts Hundred-guilder Print: The Development of Graphic Processes 596 Still Life and Genre 600 Vermeer 602 England and France 603 Chapter.