This book continues the journey through the history of Italian art begun in the first volume of the work. The books explore the mentalities and the institutions, the typography and the geography, which have determined the main characteristics of Italian art for over 1000 years. This volume includes articles on the periodization of Italian art history; on art and everyday life in the Renaissance court; on iconography in the Middle Ages; on art and the church in the 17th-century and on the concept of the Renaissance and the conflict between historical and art-historical periods. The book also includes plates of works of such artists as Pisano, Lotto, Da Modena, Giotto and many others.