This comprehensive, two-volume work presents the panorama of Italian painting spanning the period from 1300 to 1610, including all the great masters and their most famous works. The first volume is devoted to the artists who dedicated themselves to lines and drawing, starting with fresco painters such as Giotto and Piero della Francesca and moving on to Botticelli, Perugino, Pinturicchio and Michelangelo. The second volume focuses on the work of painters who developed their pictures through color, including Leonardo, Raphael, and the famous Venetians Tintoretto and Titian.