1.   He broadened the scope of the Collection through the acquisition of works by early Renaissance painters.

2.   And he goes one step further, likening Renaissance painters to the film or video directors of today.

3.   Because we take Renaissance painting so seriously, we forget that Renaissance painters could have a sense of humor.

4.   A fan of the Pre-Raphaelites, Cameron too portrayed cherubic children and moody maidens with explosive tangles of hair, sometimes using the tondo format beloved by Renaissance painters.

5.   A nonconformist, Abboud approaches design much as a Renaissance painter approached a canvas.

6.   The dazzling Renaissance painter, warts and all.

7.   Then there was my Italian period, the classic dark-haired woman of the Renaissance painters, with a very slender face and delicate body.

8.   These days Herme works more like a Renaissance painter.