Martin Luther College

Using a mysterious wardrobe that allows them to travel through time, two eleven-year-olds, Federico a boy from the Italian Renaissance and Bee a girl from present-day New Jersey, work together to prevent the bickering between two great artists from changing the future.

A major new biography on one of the greatest artists of all time, Raphael Sanzio, written by a leading Renaissance expert. Retraces Raphael's career by re-examining contemporary documents & interpreting the artist's works with the eye of a professional restorer. Raphael's paintings are vividly described & placed in their historical context.

The Renaissance artist Raphael is known for his extraordinary frescoes, his sublime Madonnas, devotional altarpieces, architectural designs, and his inventive designs for prints and tapestries. It was his use of ancient Roman art--the sculptures, the marble reliefs, the wall-paintings, and the stuccoes--and architecture--the temples, the palaces, and the theaters--as well as the churches and mosaics of early-Christian Rome, that formed his much-admired...

Explores such art topics as style, composition, color, and subject matter as they relate to twelve works by Raphael.