The last of his pupils died in 1550, and with him the Leonardo school of painting came to an end.
There is one more painter belonging to the full Renaissance too famous to remain entirely unmentioned.

This is Correggio, a painter affected also by the pictures of Raphael and Leonardo, but individual in his vision and his work.

He passed his life in Parma, in the north of Italy, inheriting a North Italian tradition, and hearing only echoes of the world beyond.

His canvases are thronged with fair shapes, pretty women and dancing children, ethereally soft and lovely.

But it is in his native town that the angels soar aloft with the Virgin in the dome of the cathedral, and the children frolic on the walls of the convent.
These are his masterpieces you would like best.
In 1550 the impetus given to painting in Italy by the Renaissance was drawing to an end.