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The Ugly Renaissance (Paperback) Loot Price: R378
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The Ugly Renaissance (Paperback): Alexander Lee

The Ugly Renaissance (Paperback)

Alexander Lee

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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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Imprint: Arrow Books Ltd
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: August 2014
Authors: Alexander Lee
Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 43mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - B-format
Pages: 624
ISBN-13: 978-0-09-957947-2
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1500 to 1750
Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > History > European history > General
Books > History > World history > 1500 to 1750
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LSN: 0-09-957947-2
Barcode: 9780099579472

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