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Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe by Mary D Garrard
Category: Art | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
An accessible introduction to the life of the seventeenth-century's most celebrated women artists, now in paperback. Artemisia Gentileschi is by far the most famous woman artist of the premodern era. Her art addressed issues that resonate today, such as sexual violence and women's problematic relations ...Show more
Botticelli: Artist and Designer by Ana Debenedetti
Category: Art | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
In this vivid account Ana Debenedetti examines the life and work of Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli, through the lens of the organisation of his workshop and the commercial strategies he devised to make his way in the very competitive art market in Florence at that time. She looks at the remarkable ...Show more
Machiavelli - From Radical to Reactionary by Robert Black
Category: Reference | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
From a leading expert on the life and works of Niccolò Machiavelli, a superb overview of the pivotal Renaissance philosopher, writer, and historian. "Machiavellian" can signify duplicity and amorality in politics, but Machiavelli himself was far more complex than this cliché. A high-ranking Florentine g ...Show more
Petrarch - Everywhere a Wanderer by Christopher S. Celenza
Category: History | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
An enlightening study of the contradictory character of this canonical fourteenth-century Italian poet. Born in Tuscany in 1304, Italian poet Francesco Petrarca is widely considered one of the fathers of the modern Italian language. Though his writings inspired the humanist movement and subsequently ...Show more
Pieter Bruegel and the Idea of Human Nature by Elizabeth Alice Honig
Category: Art | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
A fresh account of the life, ideas, and art of the beloved Northern Renaissance master. In sixteenth-century Northern Europe, during a time of increasing religious and political conflict, Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel explored how people perceived human nature. Bruegel turned his critical eye and peerl ...Show more
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