Leonardo Da Vinci: The High Renaissance
The High Renaissance, which began in the cinquecento in Italy and later spread through the rest of Europe, was a period around the 1500s, the starting date of the renaissance itself. High Renaissance artists where frequently talented in numerous fields, Leonardo Da Vinci was an expert of many sciences, Michelangelo Buonarroti was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art and lastly, Raffaello Sanzio, an architect and painter of that time. However, even though these three are widely known, Da Vinci himself is the greatest portraitists of all time. There are a few paintings that make up for his fame; the portrait of Ginevra de Benci,