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John Donne - In the Shadow of Religion by Andrew Hadfield
Category: Biography | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
John Donne: In the Shadow of Religion explores the life of one of the most significant figures of the English Renaissance. The book not only provides an overview of Donne's life and work, but connects his writing and thinking to the ideas, institutions, and networks that influenced him. The book shows h ...Show more
Leon Battista Alberti - The Chameleon's Eye by Caspar Pearson
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
A new account of the sui generis Renaissance writer and architect Leon Battista Alberti. One of the most brilliant and original authors and architects of the entire Renaissance, Leon Battista Alberti had an output encompassing engineering, surveying, cryptography, poetry, humor, political commentary, ...Show more
Leonardo Da Vinci - Self Art and Nature by François Quiviger
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
This incisive and illuminating biography follows the three themes that shaped the life of Leonardo da Vinci and, through him, forever changed Western art and imagination: nature, art, and self-fashioning. Nature and art helped form Leonardo. He spent his first twelve years in the Tuscan countryside befo ...Show more
Machiavelli - From Radical to Reactionary by Robert Black
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
From a leading expert on the life and works of Niccolò Machiavelli, a superb overview of the pivotal Renaissance philosopher, writer, and historian. "Machiavellian" can signify duplicity and amorality in politics, but Machiavelli himself was far more complex than this cliché. A high-ranking Florentine g ...Show more
Michelangelo and the Viewer in His Time by Bernadine Barnes
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
Today most of us enjoy the work of famed Renaissance artist Michelangelo by perusing art books or strolling along the galleries of a museum--and the luckier of us have had a chance to see his extraordinary frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. But as Bernadine Barnes shows in this book, even a ...Show more
Petrarch - Everywhere a Wanderer by Christopher S. Celenza
Category: Poetry | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
An enlightening study of the contradictory character of this canonical fourteenth-century Italian poet. Born in Tuscany in 1304, Italian poet Francesco Petrarca is widely considered one of the fathers of the modern Italian language. Though his writings inspired the humanist movement and subsequently ...Show more
Piero Della Francesca and the Invention of the Artist by Machtelt Brüggen Israëls
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
As one of the most innovative and enlightened painters of the early Italian Renaissance, Piero della Francesca brought space, luminosity, and unparalleled subtlety to painting. In addition, Piero invented the role of the modern artist by becoming a traveler, a courtier, a geometrician, a patron, and muc ...Show more
Pieter Bruegel and the Idea of Human Nature by Elizabeth Alice Honig
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
In sixteenth-century Northern Europe, during a time of increasing religious and political conflict, Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel explored how people perceived human nature. Bruegel turned his critical eye and peerless paintbrush to mankind's labors and pleasures, its foibles and rituals of daily life, ...Show more
Pieter Bruegel and the Idea of Human Nature by Elizabeth Alice Honig
Category: Art Instructional | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
A fresh account of the life, ideas, and art of the beloved Northern Renaissance master. In sixteenth-century Northern Europe, during a time of increasing religious and political conflict, Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel explored how people perceived human nature. Bruegel turned his critical eye and peerl ...Show more
Raphael and the Antique by Claudia La Malfa
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
The Renaissance artist Raphael is known for his extraordinary frescoes, his sublime Madonnas, devotional altarpieces, architectural designs, and his inventive designs for prints and tapestries. It was his use of ancient Roman art--the sculptures, the marble reliefs, the wall-paintings, and the stuccoes- ...Show more
Rembrandt's Holland by Larry Silver
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
Rembrandt van Rijn and the Netherlands grew up together. The artist, born in Leiden in 1606, lived during the tumultuous period of the Dutch Revolt and the establishment of the independent Dutch Republic. He later moved to Amsterdam, a cosmopolitan center of world trade, and became the city's most fashi ...Show more
Rembrandt's Holland by Larry Silver
Category: Art Instructional | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
Now in paperback, a beautifully illustrated introduction to the life and work of the exceptional Dutch painter. Rembrandt van Rijn and the Netherlands grew up together. The artist, born in Leiden in 1606, lived during the tumultuous period of the Dutch Revolt and the establishment of the independent Du ...Show more