"Renaissance Art - A Crash Course is a companion to the most significant artistic, cultural - and scientific - period in history. Although historians don't agree about when it started, when it finished, or indeed why it happened at all, one thing they do agree on is that the Renaissance fundamentally changed the way people saw themselves and their place in the world forever. Organized in chronological order, Renaissance Art - A Crash Course shows how different disciplines and areas of achievement in the Renaissance revolution fed off one another and left the greatest artistic legacy of any age. With help from a cast that includes some of the most colorful characters in history Renaissance Art - A Crash Course is a perfect introduction to this unique historical age."--Jacket.