The materials and techniques of Italian Renaissance sculpture / G.M. Helms -- The revival of antiquity in early Renaissance sculpture / H.W. Janson -- On the sources and meaning of the Renaissance portrait bust / Irving Lavin -- Familiar objects : sculptural types in the collections of the early Medici / John T. Paoletti -- Holy dolls : play and piety in Florence in the Quattrocento / Christiane Klapisch-Zuber -- The virtue of littleness : small-scale sculptures of the Italian Renaissance / Joy Kenseth -- Public sculpture in Renaissance Florence / Sarah Blake McHam -- Looking at Renaissance sculpture with Vasari / Paul Barolsky -- A week in the life of Michelangelo / William E. Wallace -- Michelangelo : sculpture, sex, and gender / James M. Saslow -- Gendered nature and its representation in sixteenth-century garden sculpture / Claudia Lazzaro.