Explores the Renaissance, interpreting it as the culmination of influences from preceding periods instead of a turn away from them; includes more than one hundred illustrations, including several color plates of Renaissance artwork.
Text and accompanying photographs focus on the grand artistic visions of Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and dozens of other geniuses of the age.
At the art museum, while her grandmother dozes, Katie steps into the painting of the Mona Lisa and together they have adventures with the characters from four other well-known Renaissance paintings. Includes information about the artists.
