Images

The Nymph of Fontainebleau by the Italian Renaissance artist Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571 CE). Made for Francis I of France (r. 1515-1547 CE) c. 1543 CE and representing the huntress goddess Diana from classical mythology. (Louvre, Paris)

A gold salt cellar made by the Italian Renaissance artist Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571). 1540-43 CE. (Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna)

The Florentine Academy by the Italian Renaissance artist Baccio Bandinelli.

A self-portrait by the Italian Renaissance artist Baccio Bandinelli. c, 1530 CE. (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston)

A detail of a relief showing the interior of a Renaissance sculptor's workshop by Nanni di Banco. c. 1416 CE. (Or San Michele, Florence)

A detail of a relief showing a Renaissance sculptor's workshop by Nanni di Banco. c. 1416 CE. (Or San Michele, Florence)

The Hunt painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Paolo Uccello (1397-1475 CE). Painted c. 1460-1470 CE. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England)

A painted panel, one of three which together make up the Battle of San Romano by the Italian Renaissance artist Paolo Uccello (1397-1475 CE). This panel, the second in the series, is an example of Uccello's concern with perspective painting...

A painted panel, one of six which together make up the Miracle of the Desecrated Host by the Italian Renaissance artist Paolo Uccello (1397-1475 CE). This panel, the first in the series, is a triumph of Renaissance perspective painting...

Saint George & the Dragon, painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Paolo Uccello (1397-1475), created c. 1470. National Gallery, London.