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The four great studies of the Venetian, Florentine, Central Italian, and Northern Italian painters of the Renaissance are here brought together, providing for the first time a complete survey of Italian Renaissance art from Cimabue to Corregio. Among the the painters and sculptors discussed in detail are Giotto, Bellini, Donatello, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Tintoretto, Titian, Velazquez, Veronese, and Verrochio.

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