Fleming Community Library

Examines the life and work of the Italian painter of the early Renaissance describing and giving examples of his art.

Explains some basic techniques of Da Vinci by analyzing several of his better-known paintings.

This book is an overview of the philosophy, inventions, art, government, religion, and daily life of the Renaissance.

A biography of Raphael accompanies color reproductions and interpretations of many of his works.

"M threw out accepted technique and dogma to paint from life with dazzling clarity. In the process he laid bare his own sexual longings and the brutal realities of life with shocking frankness. Peter Robb evokes the seething and dangerous world of Italy at the end of the sixteenth century. Caravaggio is seen as a provocateur to a culture riven by the Inquisition and the Counter-Reformation, a background of ideological cold war against which, despite...