Sperandio's Renaissance Medals
Luke Syson examines how artifice, art and political calculation combined to produce medal portraits by Sperandio of Mantua for two of Renaissance Italy's "warhorses", Giovanni Bentivoglio and Federico da Montelfeltro.
Italy
The Pope in the Palace: The Alexander Cycle, Siena
Andrew Martindale explains why Renaissance Sienese doctored the history of a 12th-century papacy when decorating their new city hall.
Whose Identity? Italy and the Italians
Harry Hearder argues that language has been a help rather than a hindrance in Italy's past and present struggle to achieve political and psychological unity.
The Church of San Frediano, Lucca
Diana Webb looks at the miracles and saints populating the basilica of the San Frediano in Lucca.
Tempting Providence: The Bombing of Monte Cassino
Were art and religion inevitable victims of war? David Colvin and Richard Hodges discuss the action and the issues it raised - including testimony from a surviving witness from the monastic community.
Saints and Cities in Medieval Italy
Every commune had to have one - Diana Webb explains how the cult of a holy man or woman and civic PR went hand-in-hand in medieval Italy.
Power and Politics in Early Modern Italy
A country divided, degenerate and in cultural decline? Robert Oresko examines the changing views historians are developing of Italy between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries and finds a society far more vibrant and complex than tradition suggests.
Reading History: Italian Unification
John A. Davis discusses a range of books tackling the Risorgimento.
'In Place of Strife' - The Guilds and the Law in Renaissance Venice
The trade guilds of Venice, explains Richard Mackenney, were organisations with a surprising amount of political and economic power in the patrician Renaissance city.
Beyond the Brushstrokes
'The Genius of Venice' at the Royal Academy, Winter 1983/4