文艺复兴时期，许多最美丽的肖像画、植物插图和山水画都是水彩画。这本书与在伦敦维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆举办的一场展览同时出版，首次把这些不同的、易损坏的艺术品放在一起展示。它汇集了Leonardo da Vinci，Albrecht Dürer，Hans Holbein，Nicholas Hilliard和Anthony van Dyck创作的150幅画作，以及不知名艺术家的精美画作，其中包括Giulio Clovio，Joris Hoefnagel， Jacopo Ligozzi和Jacques le Moyne de Morgues。这些画作的起止时期为1450年1640年。Celebrate the vibrancy of Renaissance watercolors

Many of the most beautiful Renaissance portraits, botanical illustrations, and landscape paintings are watercolors. This book, published to accompany an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, presents these diverse and fragile artworks together for the first time. Spanning the period 1450–1640, it brings together 150 paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Dürer, Hans Holbein, Nicholas Hilliard, and Anthony van Dyck, as well as exquisite works by less well-known artists, including Giulio Clovio, Joris Hoefnagel, Jacopo Ligozzi, and Jacques le Moyne de Morgues.