Historical Dictionary of Renaissance Art
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loginThe subseries on visual art in the series Historical Dictionaries of Liter-ature and the Arts starts off auspiciously with this volume on what isprobably the most important and best-known—and also most popular—period of Western art. It was, as its name denotes, a period of rebirth,reaching back to models dating from antiquity, but also a period ofnearly frantic innovation and creativity that affected, among other things,painting, sculpture, and architecture. It was dominated by the toweringfigures of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian. And itleft an incredible artistic heritage, including, among so many other ex-amples that most people have seen in one way or another, the Mona Lisa,the Sistine ceiling, and the statue of David, to say nothing of the Cathe-dral of Florence and other notable buildings. Although this period, whichstretched roughly from 1250 to 1648, now lies several centuries back inour history, its imposing influence can still be felt today.
