Renaissance art

Phaidon's classic illustrated monograph on Raphael, updated with an elegantly crafted design for today's burgeoning art aficionados.Reviving a much...

On the 500th anniversary of Raphael's death, this handsomely illustrated volume looks at his life, his art, and his genius. Raphael was an artist a...

Volume 1 of 2. Lorenzo Ghiberti, sculptor and towering figure of the Renaissance, was the creator of the celebrated Bronze Doors of the Baptistery ...

Many of the most beautiful Renaissance portraits, botanical illustrations and landscape paintings are watercolours. Spanning the period 1450-1640, ...

Hailed by his contemporaries as the divine painter, Raphael Sanzio of Urbino ( 1483-15200 was one of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissanc...

The first comprehensive interdisciplinary account of Michelangelos work as a sculptor in bronze. This book is the outcome of extensive original re...

Hans Holbein the Younger is best known for his work in Henry VIIIs England, where he painted portraits and designed decorative objects for courtly ...

Starting with Brunelleschis invention of perspective and Galileos invention of the telescopetwo inaugural moments in the history of vision, from tw...

Hieronymus Bosch lived and worked over 500 hundred years ago in the Netherlands'' town of ''s-Hertogenbosch, from which he takes his name. He is be...

The anthology of original sources from c.1400 to 1650, translated from Italian or Latin, and accompanied by introductions and bibliographies, is co...

Giovanni Bellini (active c. 1459; died 1516) was one of the most innovative and influential painters of the Venetian Renaissance and was among the ...

Decorated by Giovanni Buonconsiglio, Jacopo Tintoretto, Palma il Giovane, Sebastiano Ricci and Giambattista Tiepolo, the church of the former Bened...

In the heart of Tuscany, Piero della Francesca became a painter and mathematician at the dawn of the Renaissance, revealing his innovative mind in ...

Tracing the history of St. Antoninus' cult and burial from the time of his death in 1459 until his remains were moved to their final resting place ...

Though Bartolomeo Scappi's Opera (1570), the first illustrated cookbook, is well known to historians of food, up to now there has been no study of ...