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Renowned as an age of artistic rebirth, the Renaissance is cloaked with an aura of beauty and brilliance.
But behind the Mona Lisa’s smile lurked a seamy, vicious world of power politics, perversity and corruption that has more in common with the present day than anyone dares to admit. Enter a world of corrupt bankers, greedy politicians, sex-crazed priests, rampant disease, and lives of extravagance and excess.
Enter the world of the ugly Renaissance.
Uncovering the hidden realities beneath the surface of the period’s best-known artworks, historian Alexander Lee takes the reader on a breathtaking and unexpected journey through the Italian past and shows that, far from being the product of high-minded ideals, the sublime monuments of the Renaissance were created by flawed and tormented artists who lived in an ever-expanding world of bigotry and hatred.
The only question is: will you ever see the Renaissance in quite the same way again?
But behind the Mona Lisa’s smile lurked a seamy, vicious world of power politics, perversity and corruption that has more in common with the present day than anyone dares to admit. Enter a world of corrupt bankers, greedy politicians, sex-crazed priests, rampant disease, and lives of extravagance and excess.
Enter the world of the ugly Renaissance.
Uncovering the hidden realities beneath the surface of the period’s best-known artworks, historian Alexander Lee takes the reader on a breathtaking and unexpected journey through the Italian past and shows that, far from being the product of high-minded ideals, the sublime monuments of the Renaissance were created by flawed and tormented artists who lived in an ever-expanding world of bigotry and hatred.
The only question is: will you ever see the Renaissance in quite the same way again?
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"Fascinating ... explores the dualities of creative brilliance and human baseness with a mastery of sources and a popular touch that vividly brings the whole period to life." (Spectator)
"Effortlessly combines scholarly depth with a highly accessible style." (New Humanist)
"In this lively decipherment, Alexander Lee explains what’s really going on [in Renaissance art]." (Independent)
"Alexander Lee’s fascinating new book...explore[s] the dualities of creative brilliance and human baseness with a mastery of sources and a popular touch that vividly brings the whole period to life." (Spectator)
"‘[E]ffortlessly combining scholarly depth with a highly accessible style and presenting many of the best-known (as well as some of the least known) figures and artworks from the Renaissance in an unexpected and multifaceted light...Lee has given us a Renaissance that is...uglier, but infinitely more interesting." (New Humanist)
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"Effortlessly combines scholarly depth with a highly accessible style." (New Humanist)
"In this lively decipherment, Alexander Lee explains what’s really going on [in Renaissance art]." (Independent)
"Alexander Lee’s fascinating new book...explore[s] the dualities of creative brilliance and human baseness with a mastery of sources and a popular touch that vividly brings the whole period to life." (Spectator)
"‘[E]ffortlessly combining scholarly depth with a highly accessible style and presenting many of the best-known (as well as some of the least known) figures and artworks from the Renaissance in an unexpected and multifaceted light...Lee has given us a Renaissance that is...uglier, but infinitely more interesting." (New Humanist)
Featuring the beauties of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, combined with the dark and hidden side of the Renaissance, by an acclaimed historian and expert in the period.
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- Data di pubblicazione2013
- ISBN 10 0091944341
- ISBN 13 9780091944346
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- Numero di pagine608
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First hardcover edition, with dust jacket, published by Hutchinson, 2013. While the Renaissance may be known for the advancement of the arts and culture, there was also an underlying world of perversity, corruption, and immoral behavior, this is a history of the seamy side of this period in History. This copy is a UK edition, with £25.00 printed on the bottom corner of the front flap of the jacket. 592 pages, with Index, Bibliography, Notes, and two sections of photos. The dust jacket is intact and is not price clipped. Jacket has only minor wear from use. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. Edges of the text block are clean. The back cover board has a slight bump at the middle of the fore-edge, see photos. This is not a remainder, not a library discard copy. Binding is tight and square. Attached photos are of the copy we have in our inventory. Codice articolo 23-08547
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The ugly Renaissance / Alexander Lee
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Descrizione libro First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xiv, 592 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), map ; 23 cm. Notes; Decorated endpapers. Includes bibliographical references (pages [545]-572) and index. Subjects; Renaissance Italy. Renaissance art. Italy Civilization 1268-1559. Civilization. Degeneration Social aspects Italy History To 1500. History. Manners and customs. Sexuality. 1 Kg. Codice articolo 407778
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Descrizione libro Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 592 pages. The dust jacket is a little worn. The page edges are lightly tanned and foxed. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Codice articolo 156949
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. ALTHOUGH RENOWNED AS THE REBIRTH OF ART, THE RENAISSANCE PERIOD ALSO SAW THE REBIRTH OF SEAMY POLITICS,PERVERSITY AND CORRUPTION IN A MANNER THAT IS AKIN TO OUR OWN ERA. READ THIS BOOK AND YOU WILL NEVER VIEW THAT PERIOD IN THE SAME WAY AGAIN. Codice articolo 003016
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