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Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1400 to 1600
In Volume VI of his acclaimed" Hinges of History" series, Thomas
Cahill guides us through a time so full of innovation that the
Western world would not again experience its like until the
twentieth century: the new humanism of the Renaissance and the
radical religious alterations of the Reformation.
This was an age where whole continents and peoples were
discovered. It was an era of sublime artistic and scientific
adventure, but also of newly powerful princes and armies--and of
unprecedented courage, as thousands refused to bow their heads to
the religious pieties of the past. In these exquisitely written and
lavishly illustrated pages, Cahill illuminates, as no one else can,
the great gift-givers who shaped our history--those who left us a
world more varied and complex, more awesome and delightful, more
beautiful and strong than the one they had found.
This is a fascinating re-evaluation of the life and works of a
hugely talented yet controversial artist. The young Michelangelo
Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) created a major stir in
late-sixteenth-century Rome with the groundbreaking naturalism and
highly charged emotionalism of his paintings. "Caravaggio" is a
sumptuously illustrated and engagingly written volume that takes a
fresh look at Caravaggio's life and works, uncovering evidence that
the efforts of Caravaggio's contemporaries to disparage his
character and his artwork often sprang from their own cultural
biases or a desire to promote the artistic achievements of his
rivals, and that contrary to repeated claims, Caravaggio lacked
neither education nor piety, but was an extremely accomplished
technician who developed a successful marketing strategy.
John Marciari tells the story of the monuments, artists and patrons
of Renaissance Rome in this compelling book. In no other city is
the ancient world so palpably present, and nowhere else is the
mission of the church so evident. At the same time as the humanists
sought to preserve and recreate the ancient city, giving it a new
lease of life, the popes dispensed patronage much as any other
contemporary Italian ruler. Rome was also the most international of
the Renaissance cities with artists and architects generally
training elsewhere before arriving in the city and introducing new
trends. By adopting a chronological structure, covering the period
c.1300-1600, Marciari is able to explore the nature of Roman
patronage as it differed from papacy to papacy. He examines the
city's extraordinary works of art in the context of the working
practices, competition and rivalries that made Renaissance Rome so
magnificent.
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