Penguin Books Australia

Hieronymus Bosch (c.1450-1516), one of the major artists of the Northern Renaissance, had a seemingly inexhaustible imagination. Known as the creator of disturbing demons and spectacular hellscapes, he also painted the Garden of Earthly Delights, where gleeful naked youths feast on giant strawberries. Little is known of Bosch's life and his art has remained enigmatic, variously interpreted as the hallucinations...

A survey of one of the greatest masters of the Renaissance.

A legend within his own lifetime, Michelangelo (1457-1564) has been universally admired in the centuries since his death. Anthony Hughes employs the latest evidence from research and restoration projects to take a fresh look at what Michelangelo was and what he has become. The book sets the artist firmly within the political and social world...

The Italian Renaissance was an unparalleled era of creativity, particularly in the field of painting. Building on the achievements of artists such as Giotto in the fourteenth century and Masacio and Donatello in the fifteenth centuries, and culminating in the careers of the undisputed geniuses Leonardo de Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael and Titian, the period witnessed the rediscovery of naturalistic...

A great work of literature as well as history, this is a classic introduction to the study of the Renaissance, and one that is still a source of inspiration.

An excellent appraisal of the great Renaissance artists.

This is a new, enlarged edition of Wolfflin's work on some of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance: Leonardo; Michelangelo; Raphael; Fra Bartolommeo; Andrea del Sarto. It concludes with an exposition of the guiding principles of High Renaissance art.