Renaissance Art

For over 400 hundred years Leonardo da Vinci’s enormous fame rested on his achievements as a painter through a handful of works. These are regarded as being among the most supreme masterpieces ever created. One of the distinguishing features of the Renaissance art was its trend towards realism. To that end, painters developed new techniques, studying light, shadow, and, famously in the case of Leonardo da Vinci, human anatomy. Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael are three artists from this era who have become legends. All three shared life and times together