This volume traces the development of the Renaissance style in architecture from the early experiments of Brunelleschi and Alberti in Tuscany in the first half of the 15th century to its full flowering in Italy during the next hundred and fifty years in the work of Bramante, Rafael, Michelangelo, Sansovino, Sanmicheli and Palladio and its spread throughout Europe - to France, England, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands, which each produced local variations. The crucial role of the patron and his exacting demands is emphasized. Numerous photographs, plans, elevations and sectional drawings, many of them previously unpublished, accompany Professor Murray's authoritative text.