Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Color Plates -- Introduction -- Part One Sources and Prototypes of the Renaissance Iconography of Time -- Chapter One Concepts of Time in Classical Philosophy -- Chapter Two Classical Personifications of Time -- Chronos -- Aion/Aeternitas -- Phanes and the Leontocephaline -- Time and Solar Symbolism -- Mithraic Time Imagery -- Saturn -- Janus -- Chapter Three Early Christian and Medieval Concepts of Time -- The Negation of Time in Early Christian Art -- Nox intempesta-The Problem of Defining Time -- The Medieval Concretization of Time -- Technology, Society and the Clock -- Chapter Four Time and Temporality in Medieval Art -- The Cosmic Diagram -- Annus and the tempora -- Macrocosm and Microcosm -- Fortuna and the Ages of Man -- Time and Death -- Chapter Five The Romanesque Zodiac: Its Symbolic Function on the Church Facade -- The Earliest Monumental Zodiacs -- The Symbolic Context of the Portal Zodiac -- Omnia Tempus Habent -- The Medieval Zodiac -- The Architectural Context of the Zodiac -- Part Two Changing Concepts of Time in the Renaissance -- Introduction Changing Concepts of Time in the Renaissance -- Chapter Six The Renaissance Personification of Time in Illustrations to Petrarch's Trionfo del Tempo -- Questioning Assumptions: The Problem of "Father Time" -- Petrarch's Description of Time -- Illustrations of the Trionfo del Tempo-the initial stage -- Time and Temporality: Stage II, 1450-60 -- Eclecticism and Experimentation: 1460-80 -- Antique Revival and Renaissance Innovations: 1480-1500 -- Transformations of Time in the Sixteenth Century -- Chapter Seven Time, Virtuousness and Wisdom in Giorgione'sCastelfranco Fresco -- Fantasia per mostrare l'arte -- Objects and Maxims-the Visual Evidence -- Defining the Frame of Reference -- Liberal and Mechanical Arts -- Arms and Armor.

The Function of the Maxims -- Images of Virtue -- Images of Time -- Contrasts of Virtues and Vices -- Virtutis laus omnis in actione consistit -- Chapter Eight Kairos/Occasio-Vicissitudes of Propitious Time fromAntiquity to the Renaissance -- Lysippos and the Classical Literary Tradition -- Classical Reliefs of Kairos -- The Fate of Kairos/Occasio in Medieval Art -- Pigliar il Tempo: Kairos/Occasio and Fortuna in the Early Renaissance -- Occasio & Fortuna-the Literary Tradition of the Early Cinquecento -- Occasio and the Fata Morgana -- Modifications of Kairos/Occasio in Painting and Emblems -- Chapter Nine Veritas filia temporis:Time in Cinquecento Propaganda -- Early Renaissance Precedents -- Cinquecento Innovations: Michelangelo and Pontormo -- Veritas filia temporis in the mid Cinquecento -- The Emblem of Time as a Printers Device -- Personifications of Time: North Italian Monumental Art of the Mid Century -- Time in the Artistic Propaganda of Cosimo I-Francesco Salviati: Time in Political Strategy -- Angelo Bronzino: Time and Moralization -- Giorgio Vasari: Time Recruited -- Epilogue -- Appendix I Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts of Petrarch's Trionfi Located in European and American Collections -- Appendix II Illustrated Incunabula and Books Containing Petrarch's Trionfi, 1478-1610 -- Select Bibliography -- Index.