Charles Mack examines the evolving context of Renaissance art while offering fresh insight into the meaning of the Renaissance.

Pienza, a small hill town in north central Italy, represents one of the major architectural masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance.

A vivid guidebook to the Columbia Museum of Artas Renaissance collection A vivid guidebook to the Columbia Museum of Art's Renaissance collection

This is thanks in no small part to significant donations from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation between 1954 and 1974, which have made the museum one of the nation's major depositories of Kress gifts of art.

In the summer of 1981 the author interviews Sourthern potters as their art was in transition from making utilitarian items to the Southern folk art that was growing in popularity.

Concerns the acquisition of Benson's painting by the Columbia Museum of Art; with information on the artist and his work.