Earthly Delights: A History of the Renaissance

by Jonathan Jones

What was the "Renaissance"? In the nineteenth century this flowering of creativity and thought was celebrated as the birth of the modern world. Today many historians are sceptical about its very existence. Earthly Delights rekindles the Renaissance as a seismic change in European mentalities, in a panoramic history that encompasses Florence and Bruges, London and Nuremberg. Artists from northern as well as southern Europe, including Leonardo, Bosch,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500023131
• ISBN13: 9780500023136
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.7" x 9.9"