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Author : Warren Treadgold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780783740706
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Renaissances Before the Renaissance written by Warren Treadgold and published by . This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Stephens
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317871340
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book The Italian Renaissance written by John Stephens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating study, John Stephens inteprets the significance of the immense cultural change which took place in Italy from the time of Petrarch to the Reformation, and considers its wider contribution to Europe beyond the Alps. His important analysis (which is designed for students and serious general readers of history as well as the specialist) is not a straight narrative history; rather, it is an examination of the humanists, artists and patrons who were the instruments of this change; the contemporary factors that favoured it; and the elements of ancient thought they revived.
Author : Erwin Panofsky
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429977328
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Renaissance And Renascences In Western Art written by Erwin Panofsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art spans the period from the 10th to the 15th century, including discussion of the Carolingian renaissance and the 12th century proto-renaissance. Erwin Panofsky posits that there were "reanscences" prior to the widely known Renaissance that began in Italy in the 14th century. Whereas earlier renascences can be classified as revivals, the Renaissance was a unique instance that led to a wider cultural transformation.
Author : Paul Johnson
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0307432556
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Renaissance written by Paul Johnson and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Renaissance holds an undying place in the human imagination, and its great heroes remain our own, from Michelangelo and Leonardo to Dante and Montaigne. This period of profound evolution in European thought is credited with transforming the West from medieval to modern; reviving the city as the center of human activity and the acme of civilization; and, of course, producing the most astonishing outpouring of artistic creation the world has ever known. Perhaps no era in history was more revolutionary, and none has been more romanticized. What was it? In The Renaissance, the great historian Paul Johnson tackles that question with the towering erudition and imaginative fire that are his trademarks. Johnson begins by painting the economic, technological, and social developments that give the period its background. But, as Johnson explains, "The Renaissance was primarily a human event, propelled forward by a number of individuals of outstanding talent, in some cases amounting to genius." It is the human foreground that absorbs most of the book's attention. "We can give all kinds of satisfying explanations of why and when the Renaissance occurred and how it transmitted itself," Johnson writes. "But there is no explaining Dante, no explaining Chaucer. Genius suddenly comes to life, and speaks out of a vacuum. Then it is silent, equally mysteriously. The trends continue and intensify, but genius is lacking." In the four parts that make up the heart of the book--"The Renaissance in Literature and Scholarship," "The Anatomy of Renaissance Sculpture," "The Buildings of the Renaissance," and "The Apostolic Successions of Renaissance Painting"--Johnson chronicles the lives and works of the age's animating spirits. Finally, he examines the spread and decline of the Renaissance, and its abiding legacy. A book of dazzling riches, The Renaissance is a compact masterpiece of the historian's art.
Author : Margaret L. King
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487593082
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book A Short History of the Renaissance in Europe written by Margaret L. King and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 2003 under the title: The Renaissance in Europe.
Author : Richard MacKenney
Publisher : Red Globe Press
ISBN 13 : 0333629043
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (336 download)
Download or read book Renaissances written by Richard MacKenney and published by Red Globe Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many generations, the importance of the Italian Renaissance lay in its marking the beginning of modern times by means of a self-conscious break with the middle ages. This book seeks above all to convey the variety of cultural activity in Italy in the period between the fourteenth-century and the seventeenth: at different times within those three centuries, in different places in Italy, in association with different political ideologies. While this involves a measure of deconstruction, it also demands a synthesis that aims to communicate the richness of historical experience in the regions of Italy and the significance of that experience in the history of Europe as a whole.
Author : Johan Huizinga
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400858089
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Men and Ideas written by Johan Huizinga and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection by the distinguished Dutch historian Johan Huizinga (1872-1945) reflects the theme of its key essay, The Task of Cultural History," throughout its pages. Huizinga's conception of cultural history informs both his essays on historiographic questions and those on such figures as John of Salisbury, Abelard, Joan of Arc, Erasmus, and Grotius. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Hans Baron
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400847672
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance written by Hans Baron and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hans Baron was one of the many great German émigré scholars whose work Princeton brought into the Anglo-American world. His Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance has provoked more discussion and inspired more research than any other twentieth-century study of the Italian Renaissance. Baron's book was the first historical synthesis of politics and humanism at that momentous critical juncture when Italy passed from medievalism to the thought of the Renaissance. Baron, unlike his peers, married culture and politics; he contended that to truly understand the Renaissance one must understand the rise of humanism within the political context of the day. This marked a significant departure for the field and one that changed the direction of Renaissance studies. Moreover, Baron's book was one of the first major attempts of any sort to ground intellectual history in a fully realized historical context and thus stands at the very origins of the interdisciplinary approach that is now the core of Renaissance studies. Baron's analysis of the forces that changed life and thought in fifteenth-century Italy was widely reviewed domestically and internationally, and scholars quickly noted that the book "will henceforth be the starting point for any general discussion of the early Renaissance." The Times Literary Supplement called it "a model of the kind of intensive study on which all understanding of cultural process must rest." First published in 1955 in two volumes, the work was reissued in a one-volume Princeton edition in 1966.
Author : B. Schildgen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230601898
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Other Renaissances written by B. Schildgen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-12-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Other Renaissances is a collection of twelve essays discussing renaissances outside the Italian and Italian prompted European Renaissance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The collection proposes an approach to reframing the Renaissance in which the European Renaissance becomes an imaginative idea, rather than a particular moment in time
Author : Jacob Burckhardt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108079954
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Civilisation of the Period of the Renaissance in Italy written by Jacob Burckhardt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burckhardt's 1860 magnum opus on the development of the Italian Renaissance, here reissued in the two-volume English translation of 1878.
Author : Margaret L. King
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781856693745
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (937 download)
Download or read book The Renaissance in Europe written by Margaret L. King and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Renaissance is usually portrayed as a period dominated by the extraordinary achievements of great men: rulers, philosophers, poets, painters, architects and scientists. Leading scholar Margaret King recasts the Renaissance as a more complex cultural movement rooted in a unique urban society that was itself the product of many factors and interactions: commerce, papal and imperial ambitions, artistic patronage, scientific discovery, aristocratic and popular violence, legal precedents, peasant migrations, famine, plague, invasion and other social factors. Together with literary and artistic achievements, therefore, today's Renaissance history includes the study of power, wealth, gender, class, honour, shame, ritual and other categories of historical investigation opened up in recent years. Tracing the diffusion of the Renaissance from Italy to the rest of Europe, Professor King marries the best work of the last generation of scholars with the findings of the most recent research, including her own. Ultimately, she points to the multiple ways in which this seminal epoch influenced the later development of Western culture and society."--Jacket.
Author : Jacob Burckhardt
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 1513273752
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (132 download)
Download or read book The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy written by Jacob Burckhardt and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860) is a work of art history by Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt. Recognized today as the founder of modern art history and as one of the key thinkers of the nineteenth century, Burckhardt changed not only the way we think about the Renaissance in relation to European and world history, but the value placed on art as a tool for understanding historical developments. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy begins with a section on the historical events which sparked the Renaissance, focusing especially on the frequent military conflicts which marred the era as well as on the constant political upheavals undergone by such Italian regions and cities as Rome, Venice, and Florence. Burckhardt then moves to a philosophical discussion of the development of individuality in Italian culture, arguing that the political circumstances of those living in the Republics enabled such thinkers as Dante and Petrarch to create art that corresponded with that newfound sense of individuality. The third section discusses one of the key elements of Renaissance culture: the revival of interest in the cultural products of the ancient world, especially Greece and Rome. Part four focuses on the prominence of discovery in Renaissance culture, for which Burckhardt looks to the colonial expedition of Columbus, the growth of the natural sciences, and the achievements of such poets and writers as Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio in discovering new ways to describe humanity and the human spirit. In the fifth section, the importance of societal customs and festivals is discussed, and in the sixth and final part, Burckhardt observes the profound shifts undergone by religion and morality in Italy at the time. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy is a thorough, dynamic work of art history that not only changed the study of history at universities around the world, but elevated the status of art in understanding the process of cultural change. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Jacob Burckhardt’s The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy is a classic of European art history reimagined for modern readers.
Author : Will Durant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671616005
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (716 download)
Download or read book The Renaissance written by Will Durant and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1953 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of cilization in Italy from the birth of Petrarch to the death of Titian - 1304 to 1576.
Author : Jacob Burckhardt
Publisher : Signet Book
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy written by Jacob Burckhardt and published by Signet Book. This book was released on 1961 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1860, Burckhardt' s great work redefined our sense of the European past, wholly reinterpreting what has since been known simply as the Italian Renaissance. With unsurpassed erudition, Burckhardt illuminates a world of artistic and cultural ferment, innovation, and discovery; of revived humanism; of fierce tensions between church and empire; and of the birth of both the modern state and the modern individual. "The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy" remains the single most important and influential account of this crucial moment in the history of the West.
Author : Stephen John Campbell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500239759
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (397 download)
Download or read book A New History of Italian Renaissance Art written by Stephen John Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Campbell and Cole, respected teachers and active researchers, draw on traditional and current scholarship to present complex interpretations in this new edition of their engaging account of Italian Renaissance art. The book's unique decade-by-decade structure is easy to follow, and permits the authors to tell the story of art not only in the great centres of Rome, Florence and Venice, but also in a range of other cities and sites throughout Italy, including more in this edition from Naples, Padua and Palermo. This approach allows the artworks to take centre-stage, in contrast to the book's competitors, which are organized by location or by artist. Other updates for this edition include an expanded first chapter on the Trecento, and a new 'Techniques and Materials' appendix that explains and illustrates all of the major art-making processes of the period.Richly illustrated with high-quality reproductions and new photography of recent restorations, it presents the classic canon of Renaissance painting and sculpture in full, while expanding the scope of conventional surveys by offering a more thorough coverage of architecture, decorative and domestic arts, and print media.
Author : Hans Baron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (277 download)
Download or read book The Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance written by Hans Baron and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jack Goody
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521745161
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (451 download)
Download or read book Renaissances written by Jack Goody and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most distinguished social scientists in the world addresses one of the central historical questions of the past millennium: does the European Renaissance deserve its unique status at the very heart of our notions of modernity? Jack Goody scrutinises the European model in relation to parallel renaissances that have taken place in other cultural areas, primarily Islam and China, and emphasises what Europe owed to non-European influences. Renaissances continues that strand of historical analysis critical of Eurocentrism that Goody has developed in recent works like The East and the West (1996) or The Theft of History (2006). This book is wide-ranging, powerful, deftly argued, and draws upon the author's long experience of working in Africa and elsewhere. Not since Toynbee in The Study of History has anybody attempted quite what Jack Goody is undertaking in Renaissances, and the result is as accessible as it is ambitious.
