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The Ugly Renaissance

By Alexander Lee

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The Ugly Renaissance

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Featuring the beauties of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, combined with the dark and hidden side of the Renaissance, by an acclaimed historian and expert in the period. 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?
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
656
Release Date:
2014-08-28
Publication Date:
2014-09-30
Publisher:
Random House UK Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0099579472
ISBN13:
9780099579472
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
477 g
Height:
128 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
45 cm
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