Famous all over the world for his portraits—an illustrated composite of plants, fruit, and animals combined to create the illusion of a human form— Arcimboldo still remains, paradoxically, a painter s
The Spanish artist Diego Velazquez (1599–1660) was one of the most important painters of the Golden Age. Taking as its starting point a group of masterly children’s portraits from the high-profile col
Featuring fifty masterworks by Mantegna, Giorgione, Titian, Veronese, and Tintoretto, this stunning book examines the brilliant painters who transformed the art of Renaissance Venice. Among the singu
