Memling, Van Eyck, Antonello da Messina, Raphael, Holbein, Titian, Leonardo...are the greatest artistic names of the Renaissance. Their genius allowed them to overcome the limits of portrait and inscribe the art of it into the universal history of mankind. Spectacularly reproduced in an extraordinarily large format volume, and featuring meticulously researched illustrations, this beautiful book is the first of its kind to shed new light on some of the most familiar images in art history.