Between the 'Black Death' in the mid-fourteenth century and the French invasions at the end of the fifteenth, artists such as Masaccio, Donatello, Fra Angelico,

"Focuses primarliy on the social and historical context in which art was made and used"--Bibliographic essay (p. 326).

An introduction to 15th century Italian painting and the social history behind it, arguing that the two are interlinked and that the conditions of the time help

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Discusses eighteenth and nineteenth century European art