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A Short History of the Renaissance in Northern Europe (Paperback)
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A Short History of the Renaissance in Northern Europe (Paperback)
Series: Short Histories
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Loot Price R589
Discovery Miles 5 890
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The concept of a Northern European 'Renaissance' in the arts, in
thought, and in more general culture north of the Alps often evokes
the idea of a cultural transplant which was not indigenous to, or
rooted in, the society from which it emerged. Classic definitions
of the European 'Renaissance' during the 14th, 15th and 16th
centuries have often seen it as an Italian import of, for example,
humanism and classical learning into the Gothic North. There were
certainly differences between North and South which have to be
addressed, not least in the development of the visual arts. In this
book, Malcolm Vale argues for a Northern Renaissance which, while
cognisant of Italian developments, had a life of its own, expressed
through such innovations as a rediscovery of pictorial space and
representational realism, and which displayed strong continuities
with the indigenous cultures of northern Europe. But it also
contributed new movements and tendencies in thought, the visual
arts, literature, religious beliefs and the dissemination of
knowledge which often stemmed from, and built upon, those
continuities. A Short History of the Renaissance in Northern Europe
- while in no way ignoring or diminishing the importance of the
Greek and Roman legacy - seeks other sources, and different uses of
classical antiquity, for a rather different kind of 'Renaissance'
in the North.
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