"An excellent introduction to the art of the Renaissance. Nichols offers fresh insights and well-observed commentary on individual works and their place within the history of art."

– Tania String - Senior Lecturer in History of Art, University of Bristol

"Nichols offers fresh insights and well observed commentary on individual works of art and their place within the history of art."

– Tania String - Senior Lecturer in History of Art, University of Bristol

"Expertly informed and highly readable. Nichols provides the non-specialist with an in-depth analysis. By focusing on key masterpieces Nichols provides the non-specialist with an in-depth analysis... while also illuminatingly placing them within the wider context of Renaissance culture"

– Peter Humfrey - Professor of Art History at the University of St Andrews

"An excellent introduction. The book is exceptionally informative ... and articulated in a way that is remarkably fresh."

– Malcolm Bull - The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford, and Andrew W. Mellon