Julia Biggs’s illustrated, introductory account of the origins and development of Renaissance art accompanies 80 reproductions of paintings, altarpieces and frescos, arranged chronologically from late 13th- and 14th-century works by Duccio and Giotto to Veronese’s Feast in the House of Levi (1573), and including masterpieces by Piero della Francesca, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael.