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"Renaissance Art - A Crash Course is a companion to the most significant artistic, cultural - and scientific - period in history. Although historians don't agree about when it started, when it finished, or indeed why it happened at all, one thing they do agree on is that the Renaissance fundamentally changed the way people saw themselves and their place in the world forever. Organized in chronological order, Renaissance Art - A Crash Course shows...

A concise and readable introduction to Renaissance art.-publisher description.

Petrach and humanism - Brunelleschi and Donatello - Patrons and artists - Pollaiuolo, Verocchio and Botticelli - Mantegna - Leonardo da Vinci - Giovanni Bellini and the Venetian Renaissance - High Renaissance - Michelangelo.

A survey, illustrated by representative works, of the major developments in art and architecture during the latter half of the 15th and the first half of the 16th centuries.

The Renaissance was one of the great periods of creative and intellectual achievement. This "age of genius," from its origins in the thirteenth century to its zenith in sixteenth-century Rome, produced some of the most fascinating and dynamic artists of all time--Donatello, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, and Leonardo da Vinci. In this adventurous new book, art critic Andrew Graham-Dixon takes a fresh look at this most exciting period in art history,...