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The Ugly Renaissance (Paperback)
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The Ugly Renaissance (Paperback)
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List price R526
Loot Price R478
Discovery Miles 4 780
You Save R48 (9%)
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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?
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