Renaissance - Hardcover

Holmes, George

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 031215318X ISBN 13: 9780312153182

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1997

Synopsis

Chronicles the cultural flowering of fifteenth and sixteenth century Europe with particular emphasis on the city as an agent of cultural innovation

About this title

From Library Journal:

This gorgeously illustrated work elaborates on Fernand Braudel's thesis in Civilization & Capitalism (above) that the great commercial cities were at the center of the development of modern European life. Holmes argues that it was cities such as Florence and Antwerp that provided the environment necessary for the expression of the new attitudes to humanity by painters, sculptors, and writers, new attitudes "which then entered into the general European consciousness." (LJ 4/15/97)
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Review:

[Holmes] is especially good at conveying what is mysterious and cannot be explained in many Renaissance paintings and sculptures, and he makes somehow coherent, if not fully definable, the greatness of painters like Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael. -- The New York Times Book Review, David Walton

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 031215318X
• ISBN 13: 9780312153182
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272