The Early Renaissance and Vernacular Culture (The Bernard Berenson Lectures on the Italian Renaissance) (The Bernard Berenson Lectures on the Italian Renaissance Delivered at Villa I Tatti)

by Charles Dempsey (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2012

  $115.57

  Why do the paintings and poetry of the Italian Renaissance--a celebration of classical antiquity--also depict the Florentine countryside populated with figures dressed in contemporary silk robes and fleur-de-lys crowns? Dempsey argues that a fusion of classical form with contemporary content was the defining characteristic of the period.