A new, narrative history of the Renaissance that takes in the whole
of Europe and its global context, written by one of the UK’s
foremost art critics and respected writers on art. What was the
'Renaissance'? In the nineteenth century this flowering of
creativity and thought was celebrated as the birth of the modern
world. Today many historians are sceptical about its very
existence. Earthly Delights rekindles the Renaissance as a seismic
change in European mentalities, in a panoramic history that
encompasses Florence and Bruges, London and Nuremberg. Artists from
northern as well as southern Europe, including Leonardo, Bosch,
Bruegel and Titian, star in a captivating and beautifully
illustrated narrative that sets their lives against a period of
convulsive change across a continent that was finding itself as it
‘discovered’ the world. Art critic and writer Jonathan Jones
tells the story of Renaissance artists as pioneers, adventurers and
‘geniuses’, a Renaissance concept. Albrecht Dürer gazes with
wonder on Aztec art in Brussels in 1520, Leonardo da Vinci tries to
perfect a flying machine, Hieronymus Bosch finds inspiration in
West African ivory carvings imported by the Portuguese to Antwerp.
A then unknown Netherlandish painter, Pieter Bruegel, arrives in
1550s Rome just as Michelangelo is striving in the same city to
raise the new St Peter’s Basilica towards heaven. From Atlantic
voyages to Germanic woods, Italian palazzi to the royal castle of
Prague, this was an age when people dared to experiment with the
occult and dabble in utopias: to think and create new worlds.
General
| Imprint: |
Thames and Hudson
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
October 2023 |
| Authors: |
Jonathan Jones
|
| Dimensions: |
246 x 186mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
336 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-500-02313-6 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-500-02313-1 |
| Barcode: |
9780500023136 |
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