Michelangelo's painting of "The Holy Family with the Infant St. John the Baptist" catches my eye more so than Jan van Eyck's "Madonna in the Church." These two paintings differ in many respects because they come from two different time periods. Renaissance paintings were often of great leaders...

Revolution in Expansion In Florence, and also in the surrounding cities, the Renaissance was a time of awakening and rebirth. A time of examining the present and looking towards a future that would turn out to seem entirely different from the past, but at the same time hold striking similarities. ...