The life of Jesus of Nazareth was a major inspiration to Renaissance artists, and this book illuminates 80 excerpts from the four gospels with 120 masterworks in color. Among the paintings here are Hieronymus Bosch's The Adoration of the Magi, Fra Angelico's The Sermon on the Mount, Leonardo's Last Supper, El Greco's Agony in the Garden, Caravaggio's The Crowning with Thorns, and Rembrandt's The Descent from the Cross. Here too are masterpieces by Titian, Botticelli, Raphael, Rubens, and Veronese.