Beyond the Big Three

The High Renaissance included brilliant artists whose reputations were overshadowed by the three titans. Giovanni Bellini in Venice pioneered oil painting techniques that transformed how color and light were rendered, directly enabling everything Titian would later achieve.

In northern Italy, Correggio developed a style of soft, sensuous painting and dramatic foreshortening that anticipated Baroque art by a full century. His dome frescoes in Parma created dizzying illusions of figures soaring into heaven — an innovation usually credited to artists who came generations later.