The Ugly Renaissance Alexander Lee

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Zusammenfassung

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.

The Ugly Renaissance Zusammenfassung

The Ugly Renaissance Alexander Lee

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?

The Ugly Renaissance Bewertungen

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 *

Über Alexander Lee

Alexander Lee is a fellow in the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick. A specialist in the history of the Italian Renaissance, he completed his first two degrees at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, before proceeding to undertake his doctoral research at the University of Edinburgh. He has previously held positions at the Universita degli studi di Bergamo and the Universite du Luxembourg.

He the author of numerous studies on the Italian Renaissance, including, most recently, Petrarch and St. Augustine: Classical Scholarship, Christian Theology, and the Origins of the Renaissance in Italy (2012), and is currently working on a study of humanistic concepts of empire in the fourteenth century.

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GOR009423056

ISBN 13

9780091944346

ISBN 10

0091944341

Titel

The Ugly Renaissance Alexander Lee

Autor

Alexander Lee

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Gebundene Ausgabe

Verlag

Cornerstone

Datum

20130926

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608

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