Describes the life and work of the master painter, architect, and sculptor Giotto and introduces the artists, works, and creative techniques of fourteenth-century Italy.

Includes index.

Contemporaries -- Religious art in the middle ages -- Churches and cathedrals -- Sculpture before the time of Giotto -- Florence in the 13th century -- Cimabue, Giotto's teacher -- The workshop -- Painting on panels -- Drawing and painting -- The Dominicans -- Crucifixes --Medieval travel -- The churches at Assisi -- The Franciscans -- Real life -- Fresco painting -- The story of St Francis -- Jubilee year in Rome -- Roman mosaic work -- The last judgement -- The Scrovegni Chapel, Padua -- Giotto's originality -- In Santa Croce -- Giotto as architect -- A new style -- Sienese painting -- The golden age of Siena.