The High Renaissance and Mannerism: Italy, the North and Spain 1500-1600

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After the death of Raphael in 1520, the next generation in Italy was to see the rise of the complex and refined sensibility summed up in the term Mannerism. In this uniquely comprehensive guide to sixteenth-century Renaissance art, Linda Murray examines the manifold achievements of Italian artists and identifies the individual forms taken by artists in Northern Europe and in Spain, including Durer, Bruegel and El Greco.