In the sixteenth century, the humanist values and admiration for classical antiquity that marked the early Renaissance spread from Italy throughout the rest of

Influenced by a revival of interest in Greco-Roman ideals and sponsored by a newly prosperous merchant class, fifteenth-century artists produced works of astoni

"The Art Through the Century series introduces readers to important visual vocabulary of Western art."--Back cover.

The Renaissance began at the end of the 14th century in Italy and had extended across the whole of Europe by the second half of the 16th century. The rediscover

A team of 16 experts underline the binds and exchanges between different contexts and artistic techniques that copies established in the Renaissance, and how th