By examining the variety and complexity of Renaissance art, from Michelangelo's muscular giants to Bosch's perversely playful monsters, this course explores how Renaissance artists and their patrons understood what it means to be human and how they imagined in new ways God, Heaven, Hell, and angels (genderless and bodiless beings). By discussing both such famous works as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and such little-known ones as prints of witches, we will study ideals of gender, constructions of power, and depictions of marginalized peoples.