Beauty and the Terror. An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance, Paperback - Catherine Fletcher

*A THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020*'Brilliant and gripping, here is the full true Renaissance in a history of compelling originality and freshness'...

Reducere. A new account of the birth of the West through its birthplace--Renaissance Italy The period between 1492--resonant for a number of reasons--and 157...

Award-winning historian Kenneth R. Bartlett applies his decades of experience teaching the Italian Renaissance to this new and beautifully illustra...

In this book, Christopher Celenza provides an intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance during the long fifteenth century, from c.1350-1525. ...

Focusing on the Italian Renaissance, this is one of a series, modular in structure, which offers teachers the flexibility to design their own schem...

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Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Stephen (Professor Emeritus of History, Professor Emeritus of History, UCLA) AronIllustration(s): ...

The women who wielded the real power behind the throne in Renaissance Italy, from a bestselling historian.

Publisher: Simon & Schuster LtdAuthor(s): Alice RobertsIllustration(s): 8pp colour platesNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 ...

This book is of interest to all those who value and seek to understand the humanities. Beginning in the Italian Renaissance and ending in the Europ...

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An illustrated key to unlocking the mysteries of paintings, sculpture and architecture by the great Italian masters, this book also provides fresh ...

In this magisterial cultural and intellectual history, Thomas Bauer reconsiders classical and modern Islam by tracing differing attitudes toward am...

The Renaissance was not just a rebirth of the mind. It was also a new dawn for the machine.When we celebrate the achievements of the Renaissance, w...

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The Italian Renaissance was a golden age for bronze sculpture, both on a grand scale--such as Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise, or Cellini's Perseus--a...

Reducere. A comprehensive history and controversial reappraisal of the world's most popular and innovative literary form.

Reducere. DescriptionBuilding the Italian Renaissance focuses on the competition to select a team to execute the final architectural challenge of the cathedr...

Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a powerful dictatorship that claimed to ...

Spanning an age that witnessed great achievements in the arts and sciences, this definitive overview of the Italian Renaissance will both captivate...

The follow-up to Moore's acclaimed first volume on the history of the novel, this picks up where the story left off - beginning with Cervante's }Do...

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Winner of the 2014 Christian Gauss Award for excellence in literary scholarship from the Phi Beta Kappa SocietyHaving excavated the world's earlies...

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncAuthor(s): Margaret Ann ZahoIllustration(s): 31 ill.Number of pages: 143Collection: Renaissance and Baroque Stu...

A study of the performance of queenship by two Tudor monarchs, showing the strategies they used to assert their power.Illustrations: 4 Line drawing...

This comprehensive anthology collects together primary texts and documents relevant to the literature, culture, and intellectual life in England be...

Reducere. In this collection of nine essays some of the preeminent art historians in the United States consider the relationship between art and craft, betwe...

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Reducere. A prize-winning journalist upends our centuries-long assumptions about migration through science, history, and reporting--predicting its lifesaving...

This guidebook, Via Ferratas of the Italian Dolomites Volume 2, is the second in a series of two published by Cicerone Press, which now fully repla...

The first comprehensive look at the origins and diffusion across Europe of the etched print during the late 15th and early 16th centuries The etchi...