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In this book, William Caferro asks if the Renaissance was really a period of progress, reason, the emergence of the individual, and the beginning of modernity.
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Drawing together the latest research in the field, The Routledge History of the Renaissance treats the Renaissance not as a static concept, but as one of ongoin
Renaissance Rivals
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Pages: 540
Authors: Rona Goffen
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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For sixteenth-century Italian masters, the creation of art was a contest. They knew each other's work and patrons, were collegues and rivals. Survey of this art
How to Run the World
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The Controversy of Renaissance Art
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Authors: Alexander Nagel
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Sansovino successively dismantled and reconstituted the categories of art-making. Hardly capable of sustaining a program of reform, the experimental art of this