Lee, Alexander: The Ugly Renaissance

Featuring the beauties of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, combined with the dark and hidden side of the Renaissance, by an acclaimed historian and expert in the period. Renowned as an age of artistic rebirth, the Renaissance is cloaked with an aura of beauty and brilliance. But behind the Mona Lisa's smile lurked a seamy, vicious world of power politics, perversity and corruption that has more in common with the present day than anyone dares to admit. Enter a world of corrupt bankers, greedy politicians, sex-crazed priests, rampant disease, and lives of extravagance and excess. Enter the w orld of the ugly Renaissance. Uncovering the hidden realities beneath the surface of the period's best-known artworks, historian Alexander Lee takes the reader on a breathtaking and unexpected journey through the Italian past and shows that, far from being the product of high-minded ideals, the sublime monuments of the Renaissance were created by flawed and tormented artists who lived in an ever-expanding world of bigotry and hatred. The only question is: will you ever see the Renaissance in quite the same way again? EAN: 9780099579472 Farbverschnitt: Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. Erscheinungsjahr: 2014 Beilage: B-format paperback Autoren: Lee, Alexander Themenüberschrift: HISTORY / Renaissance Keyword: history; art; rome; italy; renaissance; michelangelo; florence; donatello the renaissance; european; rise of corruption; art history; architecture; medieval; european history Fachschema: Kunstgeschichte~Italien~Renaissance - Frührenaissance~Englische Bücher / Geschichte, Kulturgeschichte, Zeitgeschichte~Europa / Geschichte, Kulturgeschichte Fachkategorie: Kunstgeschichte~Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte Imprint-Titels: Arrow Books Länge: 198 mm Breite: 128 mm Höhe: 45 mm Gewicht: 477 gr Produktform: Kartoniert