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

Lavishly illustrated account of the life, career, achievements and times of the greatest Renaissance genius, Michelangelo, with background information on other artists of that era.

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

A brief biography of this Italian Renaissance painter accompanies reproductions and analyses of several of his works.

Text and numerous color and and black-and-white reproductions present the work of the artist, describe his career achievements, and his personal life.

"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...