This document provides an overview of several periods and artists in Renaissance and Baroque art history. It discusses the Early and High Renaissance periods in Italy, noting Renaissance artists Sandro Botticelli and Leonardo da Vinci. It also covers the Baroque period, highlighting Baroque painters Peter Paul Rubens, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, and Rembrandt van Rijn, including Rubens' 1618 painting The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus.