Renaissance art

Immerse yourself in the rich shades and textures of Tiziano Vecellio (c. 14881576), commonly known as Titian, and the figurehead of 16th-century Ve...

With the patronage of the powerful Medici family, a canon of secular and religious work, and contributions to the celebrated Sistine Chapel, Sandro...

In art history, we tend to be on first name terms only with the most revered of masters. The Renaissance painter and architect Raphael Santi (14831...

Italian-born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (14751564) was a tormented, prodigiously talented, and God-fearing Renaissance man. His man...

Rome as we know it is largely a creation of the Renaissance, restructured and risen anew from a neglected medieval town. This book traces the extra...

Definitive account of the architectural work of the great Renaissance artist Michelangelo (14751564). This monograph presents 31 of his projects, s...

No city but Florence contains such an intense concentration of art produced in such a short span of time. The sheer number and proximity of works o...

Albrecht Dürer (14711528) was the greatest artist of the Northern European Renaissance. Dürer's virtuoso woodcuts and engravings ensured his fame t...

The great Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1526/311569) was an astoundingly inventive painter and draftsman, who made his art historica...

We may never know what the Mona Lisa is really smiling about, but we do know that there's much more to the masterpieces of Renaissance art than the...

This book explores the areas of perspective, proportion, witness and theological threshold in the devotional art of the Italian Renaissance, with p...