Introduction / Rolf Toman -- Italian architecture of the late Middle Ages / Alick McLean -- Painting and sculpture in the late Middle Ages / Alexander Perrig -- Renaissance architecture in Florence and central Italy / Alick McLean -- Architecture of the high Renaissance and mannerism in Rome and central Italy / Wolfgang Jung -- Architecture of the late Renaissance in Venice and the Veneto / Jeanette Kohl -- Italian Renaissance sculpture / Uwe Geese -- Early Renaissance art in Florence and central Italy / Barbara Deimling -- Painting of the high Renaissance and mannerism in Rome and central Italy ; Renaissance painting in Venice and northern Italy / Alexander Rauch -- Drawing and the artist's basic training from the 13th to the 16th century / Alexander Perrig.