Florence and the Renaissance – Alain J Lemaitre

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Celebrates Florence’s glorious feast of artistic, architectural, and sculptural creativity during this period of enlightened patronage.
For over two hundred years, from the end of the thirteenth century, Florence was the greatest European center of artistic activity, the city at the heart of the Italian Renaissance. As cultural forces led artists and scholars to seek inspiration from the ancient classical past, wealthy and influential families, such as the Medici in Florence, encouraged them in their explorations by commissioning their work. The architect Brunelleschi designed and built the dome of Florence cathedral, the frescoes of Giotto and Masaccio decorate the churches of the city, and the work of Michelangelo, a protege of Lorenzo de Medici, abound in palaces, churches and squares. This sumptuous volume charts the flowering of the extraordinary artistic achievement of the Renaissance, through the architecture, sculpture and paintings of Florence. A wealth of color illustrations celebrates the careers of art 219 pages

Oversized softcover (coffee table size) like new internally pages clean crisp and fresh, lavishly illustrated. Boards close to fine a beautiful copy.