Profiles the life of impressionist artist Pierre Auguste Renoir highlighting his childhood early career relationship with Claude Monet paintings and more. Includes a chronology historical time line suggestions for further reading and a glossary.

Inventor, artist, scientist . . . Leonardo da Vinci's wide-ranging inquisitiveness was the source of his greatest accomplishments and his lifelong financial difficulties, he would get bored quickly and rarely finish his projects. As an artist, only seventeen of his finished works survive, and yet they include two of the most famous paintings in the world: The Last Supper and Mona Lisa. His scientific studies of human anatomy were centuries ahead...

Files the life of French artist Paul Cezanne highlighting his relationship with Emile Zola childhood struggle with self-doubt and mood swings impressionist paintings and more. Includes a chronology historical time line suggestions for further reading and a glossary.

Examines the life and career of French painter Edouard Manet one of the founders of the impressionist movement and includes reproductions of selected works as well as related essays.

Although Raphael is best remembered today for his Madonna and Child paintings, he was in great demand during his lifetime to paint dukes, counts, and fashionable ladies. Popes, cardinals, and noblemen wanted Raphael to paint frescoes on their walls, design their villas, and decorate their chapels. Raphael spent his childhood in a palace surrounded by art, music and poetry. Called Prince of Painters, he represented the ideal Renaissance Man, expressing...

In this gripping biography of Michelangelo, learn what influenced his art and his actions, and find out why he is still important today.