The Ugly Renaissance

ISBN-13: 9780099579472 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 640 str.

Alexander Lee

Opis

Today, we like to think of the Renaissance as a time of cultural rebirth and artistic beauty. But in succumbing to the temptation to revel in the artistic triumphs of the Renaissance and celebrate it uncritically as an age of splendour, we are inclined to overlook the contradictions which underpinned the revival of the arts.