"What I've tried to do in this series is challenge the idea that the Renaissance was neat and ordered. That the knowledge of the ancients was rediscovered and the civilisation of the Greeks reborn. A bit of that went on. But most of the time in most corners of the Renaissance, art wasn't pursuing knowledge or remembering the Greeks.

It was doing what art always does. Imaging the unimaginable. And inventing things. Expressing its emotions. And describing its fears. Enjoying itself. And breaking the rules. "