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What is Renaissance (Television Program: British Broadcasting Corporation) about?
The Renaissance was one of the great periods of creative and intellectual achievement. This "age of genius," from its origins in the thirteenth century to its zenith in sixteenth-century Rome, produced some of the most fascinating and dynamic artists of all time--Donatello, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, and Leonardo da Vinci. In his adventurous new book, lavishly illustrated with 125 color illustrations, acclaimed art critic Andrew Graham-Dixon takes a fresh look at this most exciting period in art history, challenging many of the myths and misconceptions surrounding the Renaissance. The Italian scholars who first dreamed of a Renaissance wished to revive the spirit of classical antiquity after the darkness--as they saw it--of the medieval and Byzantine periods. Graham-Dixon argues, however, that the Renaissance represented a culmination rather than a complete rejection of those earlier influences. Starting in the Middle Ages with the impact of the Franciscan movement on painting in Italy, Graham-Dixon's reappraisal of the Renaissance takes us through the key moments of its development, focusing on the major artists and architects of the the Early Renaissance in Florence--Giotto,
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- Author
- Graham-Dixon, Andrew
- Publisher
- Berkeley: University of California Press
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780520223752
- Category
- art
- Subjects
- Fiction, History, Art
- Rating
- 3.93 / 5 (33 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14