Masterpieces of the Renaissance

The Renaissance is one of the most vivid and worldview-changing human eras in world culture and a phenomenal phenomenon in human history. It was a time of new understanding of nature and the human being, as well as of grand changes in the history of European peoples. The transformation made during the Renaissance era in the sphere of spiritual culture was of enormous historical significance. Of all areas of culture, art held first place in Italy. It was a natural, creative expression of the people of that time. That is why it is no accident that the names of great painters, sculptors, architects, discoverers, and researchers are associated with this era. Their great works outlived their time and, passing through the centuries, preserved their power to affect the viewer, giving impetus to the development of distinctive national cultures. And the realistic method developed by Renaissance masters determined the further development of the entire artistic culture of the New Age.

With which great masters of painting, sculpture, and architecture is the Renaissance inseparably connected? Which of the artists prepared the emergence of the Renaissance? How did the fate of the great Renaissance titans unfold?