Francesco Frangi is full Professor of Modern Art History and Museology at the University of Pavia (Cremona campus). He is one of the leading experts on 16th- and 17th-century Lombardy. Marco Tanzi is full Professor of History of Modern Art at the University of Salento. He mainly deals with figurative culture in northern Italy from the 15th to the 17th century, with wandering artists along routes that are by no means canonical in the artistic geography of the peninsula and, more recently, with the Renaissance in the Terra d'Otranto.

• IntroductionThe Middle AgesThe Renaissance: Dismembered Tombs and Wooden Choir StallsThe "Stories of the Life of the Virgin and Christ" and the Modernization of Painting in the Po ValleyThe "Mannerism of the Campi of Cremona" and the Early 17th CenturyFrom the Second Half of the 17th Century to the 19th Century Topographical Index

Francesco Frangi is full Professor of Modern Art History and Museology at the University of Pavia (Cremona campus). He is one of the leading experts on 16th- and 17th-century Lombardy. Marco Tanzi is full Professor of History of Modern Art at the University of Salento. He mainly deals with figurative culture in northern Italy from the 15th to the 17th century, with wandering artists along routes that are by no means canonical in the artistic geography of the peninsula and, more recently, with the Renaissance in the Terra d'Otranto.

• IntroductionThe Middle AgesThe Renaissance: Dismembered Tombs and Wooden Choir StallsThe "Stories of the Life of the Virgin and Christ" and the Modernization of Painting in the Po ValleyThe "Mannerism of the Campi of Cremona" and the Early 17th CenturyFrom the Second Half of the 17th Century to the 19th Century Topographical Index

Francesco Frangi is full Professor of Modern Art History and Museology at the University of Pavia (Cremona campus). He is one of the leading experts on 16th- and 17th-century Lombardy. Marco Tanzi is full Professor of History of Modern Art at the University of Salento. He mainly deals with figurative culture in northern Italy from the 15th to the 17th century, with wandering artists along routes that are by no means canonical in the artistic geography of the peninsula and, more recently, with the Renaissance in the Terra d'Otranto.

• IntroductionThe Middle AgesThe Renaissance: Dismembered Tombs and Wooden Choir StallsThe "Stories of the Life of the Virgin and Christ" and the Modernization of Painting in the Po ValleyThe "Mannerism of the Campi of Cremona" and the Early 17th CenturyFrom the Second Half of the 17th Century to the 19th Century Topographical Index