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The Flowering of the Renaissance

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Following the collapse of Medici rule in fifteenth-century Florence, the centre of Renaissance activity moved first to Rome and finally to Venice. In the Rome of Julius II and Leo X which Michelangelo remodelled and beautified, in the Venice of Titian and Tintoretto and Palladio, the Renaissance reached the height of its splendour, not only in the visual arts but also in the theatre, history, biography, epic poetry and music.

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Weight 0.468 kg
Dimensions 2.4 × 15.3 × 23.4 cm
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Paperback
Language

Pages

336
Publisher

Year Published

1992-9-10
Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0712698841
About The Author

Vincent Cronin was educated at Ampleforth College, Harvard University, and Trinity College, Oxford, from which he graduated with honours in 1947. In addition to being a recipient of a W.H. Heinemann Award (1955) and a Rockefeller Foundation Award (1958), Cronin is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His works have been widely translated into European languages. He died in January 2011, aged 86.
Review Quote

An evocative picture of Rome at the turn of the sixteenth century… the account of Michelangelo is particularly memorable. At the same time Mr Cronin places the Renaissance firmly in its historical, political and religious setting… The book is beautifully written, and in his discussion of such artists as Titian and Giorgione Cronin shows a rare talent for describing and dissecting paintings.
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It is Mr Cronin's outstanding achievement to have given this truly chaotic period a form which makes it intelligible – but without distorting its meaningthrough over-simplification.

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