Ashes to Ashes. Art in Rome Between Humanism and Maniera

Preface. P. Davies, The Tempietti on the Ponte Sant'Angelo and the Renaissance of architecture in Rome; V. Plathe Tschudi, The shape of space. An interpretation of the term «area» in Alberti's De re aedificatoria; R. Eriksen, Alberti, Manetti, and Quattrocento aesthetics; F. Forsgren, The hidden harmonies of the «casa di Mantegna»; L. Hodne, The Renaissance idea of philosophical concord and Raphael's School of Athens; A. Lange Malmanger, The legacy of Leonardo da Vinci's Leda in Cinquecento art; W. E. Wallace, Michelangelo admires antiquity... and Marcello Venusti; C. Lapraik Guest, Giulio Camillo's theatre and decorum in mannerist decoration; K. Kolrud, Maria Lactans and the Council of Trent: a ban on the Virgin's Bare breast?; M. Malmanger, Embers in the ashes: Cellini and the lingering high Renaissance; P. Barolsky, A brief history of God's career in art from the beginning of time till the end of the world.