In this gallery, we present 50 of the most important Renaissance paintings created by the greatest artists from Jan van Eyck (c. 1390-1441) to Tintoretto (1518-1594).

Take a tour of the Italian Renaissance and learn about 20 famous paintings from the era. Painted in the Dominican Church of Santa Maria Novella, Florence, the Holy Trinity fresco is the earliest surviving painting to use systematic linear perspective.

c.1400: Miniaturist Jacquemart de Hesdin paints The Carrying of the Cross; 1401: Commission to design bronze doors for the Florence Baptistery won by Lorenzo Ghiberti; 1405: Andrei Rublev paints icons and frescoes for the Cathedral of the Annunciation, Moscow, the first record of his work

Michelangelo (1475-1564 CE) - the first 'Renaissance man' who was as skilled in painting as in sculpture. Raphael (1483-1520 CE) - a master of colouring, harmony, and creating the illusion of space.

During the Renaissance, a large body of art was predominantly attributed to male artists since men wrote history. History, the name alone—his and story combined—was written by men about their counterparts discounting the social and cultural boundaries that denigrate women.