The course is aimed at students of the three-year degree and wants to offer the methodological tools and basic knowledge for the study of art history in Italy in the early modern age. Through a chronological and geographical path, the development of painting, sculpture and architecture in Italy between the 15th and 18th centuries will be outlined. The objective is above all the acquisition by the student of the ability to orient himself stylistically and critically among the artists and the main works of the history of early modern art, with its main historiographical focuses. At the end of the course, students will be able to deal with the iconographic, stylistic and technical analysis of a work of art, in its historical and critical context.