Venice at the start of the sixteenth century was Europe's undisputed capital of culture: home to some of the finest artists of the Italian Renaissance, whose importance stretched far beyond the region
Giovanni Battista Moroni is considered one of the great portraitists of sixteenth-century Italy. Published with The Frick Collection to accompany the first major exhibition devoted to the artist in th
Leonardo da Vinci's reputation as an inventor and scientist, and the complexity of his creativity and?personality, have sometimes almost overshadowed the importance of his aims and techniques as a pai