Author and artist Lucy Jane Freeman wrote this all-encompassing volume on Italian Renaissance sculpture at a time when there was little known on the topic. Most books on the Italian Renaissance published during this period focused on the lives of the painters. Freeman covers the Renaissance from the early years of religious sculpture—panels and doors made for cathedrals—to the times of Michelangelo and Donatello, who were among the first to sculpt free-standing nudes since the time of antiquity.ℓ