Richly illustrated in color, this handbook aims to impart the skills that allow the reader to answer the question, "Why does this painting matter?" Organized chronologically, with passages of historical background, we follow Richard Peterson's probing descriptions of painting in Santa Croce, the Brancacci Chapel at the Carmine, the Uffizi and Accademia, Santa Maria Novella and San Marco, and other remarkable repositories of the city's masterpieces...