THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PAINTERS AND SCULPTORS

One of the best known and most celebrated of all periods in history, the Renaissance was a time of momentous change in European art and civilization, representing a transition from the medieval world to the modern one. In fact, when historians speak of early modern Europe, they are referring to the period encompassed by the Renaissance. For most people, the idea of the Renaissance is tightly bound with Italy, and fully two-thirds of the painters and sculptors surveyed in this book are Italian. Yet the Renaissance was hardly confined to Italy. One has only to think of some of the most famous and familiar names of the period: Albrecht Dürer and Hans Holbein the Younger (Germany), or Hiëronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel the Elder (the Netherlands). These and other great artists from France, Spain, and England are among those treated here