Renaissance People: Lives That Shaped the Modern Age

by Robert C. Davis, Beth Lindsmith, Davis Robert

Book Overview

The Renaissance burst forth in all its glory around 1500 and spread throughout Europe. This period of great creativity and productivity in the arts and sciences is illuminated in this book through the lives of more than ninety of its illustrious intellectuals, artists, literary figures, scientists, and rulers. Included are such major figures as Lorenzo and Catherine de' Medici, Leonardo da Vinci, Charles V, Luther, Columbus, Copernicus, and St...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606060783
• ISBN13: 9781606060780
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.5" x 9.8"