Public painting and visual culture in early republican Florence

Introduction: public painting and visual culture in early republican Florence, 1282-1434

Paintings in the streets: tabernacles, public devotion, and control

Images of charity: confraternities, hospitals, and pictures for the destitute

Art and the commune: politics, propaganda, and the bureaucratic state

Pictures for merchants: the guilds, their paintings, and the struggle for power

Public painting in sacred spaces: piers and pilasters in Florentine churches

Murals for the masses: paintings on nave walls

Masaccio's Trinity and the triumph of public painting for common people in early republican Florence.