Renaissance art

Leonardo da Vinci (14521519) was a painter, architect, inventor and student of all things scientific. His natural genius crossed so many discipline...

This fascinating exploration of Leonardo da Vinci's life and work identifies what it was that made him so unique, and explains the phenomenon of th...

The great tradition of printmaking and drawing in Spain has rarely been examined. This spectacular volume of drawings and prints looks at the histo...

Renaissance Children puts child portrait painting from the 15th and 16th century in the spotlight and tells the historical, pedagogical and artisti...

The self-portrait of Baccio Bandinelli in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, shows the scupltor pointing not to a work of marble or bronz...

Lorenzo de' Medici: The embodiment of Florence's most powerful family, a brutal man who ruled the city with an iron fist, whilst protecting it from...

The volume, starting from the celebrated and fascinating Portrait of a Lady from the Poldi Pezzoli museum in Milan, one of the greatest masterpiece...

Published to accompany the V&A''s major spring exhibition, Botticelli Reimagined, 5 March to 3 July 2016 The Florentine painter Sandro Bottice...

In a Reformation kingdom ill-used to queens, Elizabeth I needed a very particular image to hold her divided country together. The Cult of Gloriana ...

The Monochrome of the Sala delle Asse is a portion of wall decoration left at the drawing stage and represents the roots of one of the sixteen mulb...

Accompanying a focused display at The Courtauld Gallery that will bring together for the first time Pieter Bruegel the Elders only three known gris...

Leonardo's enduring fascination with waterfrom its artistic representation to aquatic inventions and hydraulic engineeringFormless, mutable, transp...

A Renaissance painter and printmaker best known for his landscapes and peasant scenes, Bruegel's paintings were often unsentimental depictions of d...

The Ashmolean Museum and the Albertina are collaborating on a two-part exhibition project that will examine anew the role and the significance of d...

Lucas van Leyden (1494-1533) was as important for his age as Rembrandt was for the 17th century. He introduced the Renaissance to the Netherlands a...

The first publication to consider the relationship between these two major artists of the High Renaissance Through most of Michelangelos working li...

The formation and career of the first major woman artist of the RenaissanceSofonisba Anguissola (ca. 15351625) was the daughter of minor Lombard ar...