Renaissance Art in Italy: The Sixteenth Century

The culmination of Renaissance ideals in the art and architecture of Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian, and Palladio, and the conflicting responses of later artists to the spiritual and aesthetic upheavals of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. Religious and secular art, palaces and villas, and theaters exemplify changes in politics, patronage, and the role and status of artists.