Color Inserts
Raphael. Veiled Woman (La Velata), c. 1513. Rivaling Michelangelo as one of the most talented artists of the High Renaissance period, Raphael executed a number of portraits which are considered to have set the standard for subsequent Renaissance portraiture. ©SCALA/ART RESOURCE, N.Y.
Rococo. The Rape of Europa by François Boucher, 1747. Boucher’s rococo style is here exemplified in exuberant use of color and playful eroticism. THE ART ARCHIVE/MUSÉE DU LOUVRE, DAGLI ORTI (A)
Art in Rome. The Expulsion from Paradise; detail of the Sistine Chapel ceiling painted by Michelangelo, 1508–1512. ©SCALA/ART RESOURCE
Scientific Illustration. Albrecht Dürer’s Large Piece of Turf, watercolor on paper, 1503. ©ERICH LESSING/ART RESOURCE, N.Y
Art in Spain. The Immaculate Conception, 1676–1679, by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. Murillo painted in Seville, and by the 1640s he had become the dominant artistic figure in that city. His works were created primarily for religious patrons and appealed in their idealized depictions to the religious imagination of his society. ART ARCHIVE/MUSEO DEL PRADO MADRID/DAGLI ORTI (A)