It is an important work as it balances the Renaissance ideals of classical beauty with naturalism.

The Renaissance ideal was fully adopted by the ruling classes and the aristocracy.

Venus is an Italian Renaissance ideal: red-haired, pale-skinned, voluptuous.

Dialoghi d'amore was an important work in Spanish culture as it brought Renaissance ideals to Spain.

Ercilla embodied the Renaissance ideal of being at once a man of action and a man of letters as no other in his time was.

His genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal.

With such works he has been described as reaching the High Renaissance ideals, and certainly expresses the key distinctive factors of the Venetian school.

The painting distills a classic Renaissance ideal of beauty - with body and spirit, fact and faith, audacity and humility in balance.

Loss of confidence in the Renaissance ideals.

The Renaissance ideal of harmony gave way to freer and more imaginative rhythms.