Amazon.com description: Product Description: Heavily illustrated, pocket-sized, and filled with useful information, Crash Course books make excellent supplements to main textbooks for students who are taking college-101 humanities courses. They are also informative and entertaining books for the general reader. Each Crash Course volume contains approximately 400 high quality photos and illustrations, most of them in full color. This chronological overview of painting, sculpture, and architecture covers major artists and works of the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries. Special emphasis is placed on the important Renaissance cultural and art centers of Florence, Rome, and Venice. Full-color reproductions and photos show works by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Ghiberti, Donatello, and many others.