Includes bibliographical references and index.

Light as form and symbol in some fifteenth-century paintings -- Jan van Eyck and the Italian Renaissance -- "Highlands" in the lowlands : Jan van Eyck, the master of Flémalle and the Franco-Italian tradition -- Masaccio and the early Renaissance : the circular plan -- A documented altarpiece by Piero della Francesca -- Ovum struthionis : symbol and allusion in Piero della Francesca's Montefeltro altarpiece -- Once again Piero della Francesca's Montefeltro altarpiece -- La sacra conversazione di Piero della Francesca : extracts -- Toward a more comprehensive Renaissance palaeography -- Alphabetical treatises in the Renaissance -- Scholarship and penitence in the early Renaissance : the image of St. Jerome -- Raphael's mechanized seashell : notes on a myth, technology and iconographic tradition -- Sleep in Venice : ancient myths and Renaissance proclivities.