Renaissance Painting The Golden Age of European Art

This handsome volume surveys the development of painting during one of the most important periods in the history of art, the Renaissance, which spanned the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Europe. Approximately 500 beautiful full-color reproductions of works by Italian, German, Spanish, French and Flemish artists fill this book. Among the 90 painters represented are Italians Fra Angelico, Piero della Francesca, Leondardo da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Raphael, and Titian...the French artists Jean Clouet and masters of the school of Fountainebleau...The Germans Albrecht Durer and Lucas Cranach...northern European masters including Pieter Bruegel, Jan van Eyck, Hieronymus Bosch, and many others. The book's faithful reproductions represent paintings in churches, palaces, and museums throughout Europe and America. -- From back cover.