The early Renaissance and vernacular culture /

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...

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Main Author: Dempsey, Charles
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012
Series:Bernard Berenson lectures on the Italian Renaissance.
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