Princes of the Renaissance: The Hidden Power Behind an Artistic Revolution Hollingsworth Mary
Princes of the Renaissance: The Hidden Power Behind an Artistic Revolution Hollingsworth Mary A vivid history of the lives and times of the aristocratic elite whose patronage created the art and…
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Princes of the Renaissance: The Hidden Power Behind an Artistic Revolution Hollingsworth Mary
A vivid history of the lives and times of the aristocratic elite whose patronage created the art and architecture of the Italian Renaissance.The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was an era of dramatic political, religious, and cultural change in the Italian peninsula, witnessing major innovations in the visual arts, literature, music, and science.The Princes of the Renaissance charts these developments in a sequence of eleven chapters, each of which is devoted to two or three princely characters with a cast of minor ones--from Federigo da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, to Cosimo I de' Medici, Duke of Florence, and from Isabella d'Este of Mantua to Lucrezia Borgia. Many of these princes were related by blood or marriage, creating a web of alliances that held Renaissance society together--but whose tensions could spark feuds that threatened to tear it apart.A vivid
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