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The Early Renaissance and Vernacular Culture - The Bernard Berenson Lectures on the Italian Renaissance Delivered at Villa I Tatti Charles Dempsey
The Early Renaissance and Vernacular Culture - The Bernard Berenson Lectures on the Italian Renaissance Delivered at Villa I Tatti
Charles Dempsey
Why do the paintings and poetry of the Italian Renaissance—a celebration of classical antiquity—also depict the Florentine countryside populated with figures dressed in contemporary silk robes and fleur-de-lys crowns? Charles Dempsey argues that a fusion of classical form with contemporary content was the defining characteristic of the period.
398 pages, 45 halftones
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | February 27, 2012 |
| ISBN13 | 9780674049529 |
| Publishers | Harvard University Press |
| Pages | 398 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 208 × 31 mm · 544 g |
| Language | English |